
Security Operations Intern
VGS
internship
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $20 per hour
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Assist with monitoring and triaging security alerts across endpoint, identity, cloud, enterprise, and internal systems.
- Support incident response efforts by collecting logs and evidence, documenting timelines, and helping track follow-up actions.
- Help improve vulnerability management processes by validating findings, tracking remediation, and partnering with system owners on fixes.
- Contribute to the creation and maintenance of security playbooks, runbooks, and operational documentation.
- Assist with phishing investigations, access reviews, asset inventory hygiene, and other day-to-day security operations activities.
- Support enterprise security initiatives across SaaS, device, identity, and corporate infrastructure environments.
- Help evaluate and strengthen the security of internal AI systems and AI-enabled workflows, including how they are deployed, accessed, monitored, and protected across the enterprise.
- Help automate repetitive operational tasks using scripts, workflows, or low-code tooling where appropriate.
- Participate in security control validation and operational readiness checks for internal tools and infrastructure changes.
- Be proactive and innovative; we rely on your feedback to help build a secure, resilient company.
- Be a part of a team that believes in transparency, collaboration, grit, and humility, and in doing the right thing for our customers and the company.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or have equivalent hands-on experience.
- Foundational understanding of security operations concepts such as incident response, alert triage, vulnerability management, identity and access management, and endpoint security.
- Familiarity with basic networking, operating systems, and cloud concepts.
- Comfort working in terminal and web-based tools, and interest in learning how modern security teams operate.
- Exposure to scripting or automation with Python, Bash, or similar languages is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document work clearly and collaborate across teams.
- Organized, dependable, and excited to learn in a fast-moving environment.
- Bonus points if you have experience with log analysis, SIEM tools, EDR tools, ticketing systems, or SaaS administration.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
incident responsealert triagevulnerability managementidentity and access managementendpoint securityscriptingautomationlog analysisSIEM toolsEDR tools
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationcollaborationorganizationdependabilityproactivityinnovationtransparencygrithumility