Cybersecurity Intern 2024

Date Posted:

2024-02-28

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA542: 22260 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22260 Pacific Boulevard Building CC4, Sterling, VA, 20166-6916 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

This position is for interns who will be entering their freshman, sophomore, junior or senior year by the start of summer 2024.

We are seeking Cybersecurity Interns for 2024 to help deliver innovative solutions and new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for commercial customers, utilities, government agencies. With a critical mission, we research and engineering to enable our customers to exploit the future of cybersecurity.

We protect mission-critical systems and national security cyber infrastructure through a broad range of initiatives to include network defense, cyber operations, secure techniques.

This unique opportunity will provide interns to learn how to triage alerts and analyze security events and logs for threats such as computer viruses, exploits, and malicious attacks. Interns will focus on building a foundation of cybersecurity regulations and technical training, specializing in Hunt and Incident Response, Detection in support of customers and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA).

Specialty Areas Include:

• Hunt and Incident Response

• Detection and Prevention

• Cloud Forensics

• Operating System and Infrastructure specific

Primary Responsibilities:

• Full-spectrum cyber operations, offensive and defensive cyber operations.

• Vulnerability research, and exploit development.

• Malware analysis.

• Network protocol development, analysis, and reverse engineering.

• Host and network-based forensic analysis

• Machine learning methods as applied to cyber security problems.

• Program analysis (including vulnerability detection and/or remediation).

• Use critical thinking to bring together information from multiple sources to determine if a threat is present.

• Be able to effectively annotate work completed during an investigation.

• Track incoming alerts from multiple clients and sources effectively.

• Communicate with internal and external personnel during investigations or custom requests.

• Work directly with Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) and Data Collection Teams to provide assistance in the areas of data collection, data analytics, and operational effectiveness as it pertains to defined use cases.

• Review existing data collection sources and optimize for empowering operational use cases, with an eye toward removing data sources which provide no operational value.

• Data Analytics -Help define data collection, usage, and visualization requirements

• Ensure technical correctness, timeliness and quality of deliverables.

Basic Required Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled in college by summer of 2024 pursuing a Bachelor's or advanced degree in an applicable discipline: Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Science.

• U.S. Citizenship.

*Candidates must be eligible to obtain a security clearance and customer suitability as needed.

• A passion to learn something new every day and to stay up-to-date with developments in your field.

• Adept at independent problem-solving and comfortable with a general approach of taking initiative to find and develop solutions.

• A strong communicator with others, both written and verbal.

• Background check and drug screen required (every external new hire in the U.S.)

• Drug screen only performed on re-hires who have been gone for more than 1 year.

• This is a hybrid role, required to be available to be on-site as needed.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrate self-starter.

• Ability to grasp the "big picture" and see beyond specific problems.

• Security information and event management (SIEM) and data collection tools.

• Ability to learn Azure/AWS/cloud technologies.

• Operating systems knowledge: Linux, Windows or MacOS.

• Experience working with Security Operations Center (SOC)/CIRT team workflows and analytical tools chains for operational efficiency and mission execution.

• Experience with 1 or more programming and scripting languages (e.g Shell, Python, PERL, Java, C/C++/C#, etc.).

• Experience and ability to effectively use Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel in a team-oriented environment..

• Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world - and access to sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

About Cybersecurity, Intelligence and Services

The Cybersecurity, Intelligence and Services (CIS) business provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. CIS brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets

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The salary range for this role is 37,000 USD - 82,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company's performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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