Cyber Range & Lab Automation Intern

Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh seeks an intern to join the Cyber Mission Readiness Directorate. You will help build hands-on cybersecurity training environments, develop VM templates, and support open-source virtualization platforms.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers and educators, with opportunities to work on Proxmox VE/VMware, Terraform, Packer, and Ansible, while contributing to real-world lab content and training exercises.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a degree-granting program.
• Willing to travel to SEI/CMU locations.
• Eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain virtual machine templates and lab topologies.
• Migrate and validate existing lab content on new virtualization infrastructure.
• Develop and test cyber exercise scenarios with subject matter experts.
• Document lab environments and demonstrate them to the team.

Skills

Linux familiarity

Windows admin

Scripting: Python/Bash

Collaboration

Travel willingness

Documentation

Education

Enrolled in degree granting program

Tools

Proxmox VE

VMware vSphere

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

cloud-init

Job description

Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh seeks an intern to join the Cyber Mission Readiness Directorate. You will help build hands-on cybersecurity training environments, develop VM templates, and support open-source virtualization platforms.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers and educators, with opportunities to work on Proxmox VE/VMware, Terraform, Packer, and Ansible, while contributing to real-world lab content and training exercises.