College Intern - Cyber Security Threat Management

Requisition ID: 16881

 

Join us in building a better future for Arizona!

SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power and named one of Arizona's best employers by Forbes. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

 

Why Work at SRP

SRP's success is rooted in our employees' happiness, health, and safety. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and enhance their well-being. In addition to competitive pay and performance incentives, eligible employees can take advantage of the following benefits:

• Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)
• Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance
• Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)
• Short and long-term disability plans
• Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs
• 10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

 

Summary

SRP's Cyber Security Strategic Defense department is seeking an intern to support a wide range of functions within the Threat Management team. Threat Management serves as SRP's cyber security operations center (SOC), and is responsible for detection, response, and remediation of cyber security events across the enterprise.

 

Student interns are required to work a minimum of 30 hours per week, but up to 40 hours are available if school schedule can accommodate.  Work week is Monday - Friday during support hours of 6am-6pm. Must be able to work 2 days on-site per week.

What You'll Do

• Develop skills and learn procedures to effectively identify, detect, contain, eradicate, recover, and document cyber incidents in an enterprise environment to effectively defend against cyber threats.
• Maintain awareness of current threat landscape utilizing threat intelligence from government and industry partners, as well as information security community resources.
• Learn about malware, cyber threat hunting, security analytic tool best practices, and vulnerability management.
• Support internal tool sets, including antivirus, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), IPS/IDS, sandboxing/emulation, forensic software, Network Detection & Response (NDR), etc.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and other cyber security teams on security control design, deployment, and configuration.
• Cultivate an understanding of SRP's network environment, critical applications, and infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to develop new detections and monitoring capabilities based on log data and telemetry.

What It Takes To Succeed

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong understanding of Computer Operating systems, software, and hardware.
• Solid understanding and knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures. within the Information Technology and Cyber Security fields.
• Ability to communicate well with others and to perform work in a team environment.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and exhibit a collaborative work style.
• Detail orientated, critical thinking, problem solving in a fast-paced technical setting.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office products

 

Eligibility:

• To be eligible for the Student Intern Program at SRP, the employee must be actively enrolled in a minimum of six (6) credit hours that are college level (100) or above over the course of a regular semester and must be working towards a degree or certificate from an accredited college or university.
• For an accelerated program, the student must be enrolled in six credit hours in the equivalent of a traditional semester.
• Pay rate is $18.75 per hour for an undergraduate intern and $20.80 per hour for a graduate intern.

Education

College level coursework (100+) from an accredited institution will be evaluated on an individual basis according to the skill/level to determine if applicable to the position by management.

 

Hybrid Workplace

SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed