Cybersecurity Engineer Intern

American Express; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Wellness centers access

Healthy Minds program

Career development opportunities

Job summary

American Express is offering a 10-week Cybersecurity Internship within Enterprise Technology Services. You will learn to protect information systems, customer data, and digital assets while collaborating with cybersecurity engineers, product teams, and operations.

The program emphasizes secure development, threat detection, and AI-enabled security workflows. You will contribute at an early-career level, gaining experience in security controls design, documentation, and risk management in a

Qualifications

• Foundational understanding of cybersecurity, information security, application security, network security, cloud security, or technology risk concepts.
• Foundational knowledge of network protocols, security fundamentals, IAM, data privacy, data protection, or secure software development concepts.
• Interest in scripting or automation using languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support secure network, endpoint, identity, and access management activities with guidance from peers and leaders.
• Assist with security documentation, assessment findings, remediation tracking, and reporting to support compliance and security posture improvements.
• Collaborate with software development and product teams to learn how security is integrated into the software development lifecycle and secure coding practices.
• Conduct research on emerging cyber threats, security technologies, AI-enabled security risks, and control approaches to support team knowledge and decision-making.
• Use AI-enabled cybersecurity tools to support threat detection, alert triage, analysis, documentation, and investigation activities while validating outputs before escalation or implementation.
• Assist with security control implementation and monitoring approaches for cloud-based, AI-enabled, or enterprise technology services under guidance.
• Apply structured prompt design techniques when using AI agent-enabled security tools, including clear context, objectives, constraints, and security requirements.

Skills

Cybersecurity basics

Python scripting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in progress

Tools

AI-enabled tools

Job description

American Express is offering a 10-week Cybersecurity Internship within Enterprise Technology Services. You will learn to protect information systems, customer data, and digital assets while collaborating with cybersecurity engineers, product teams, and operations.

The program emphasizes secure development, threat detection, and AI-enabled security workflows. You will contribute at an early-career level, gaining experience in security controls design, documentation, and risk management in a