Cybersecurity Infrastructure Engineer Intern

L3Harris; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris is recruiting an Information Security Systems Engineer Intern to join the Melbourne, FL security team. The role focuses on supporting and maintaining enterprise cybersecurity infrastructure for threat detection, monitoring, and response, working with SOC analysts and incident response teams.

The intern will help deploy, configure, and maintain security technologies, develop integrations, and contribute to automation scripts to improve operational efficiency in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support enterprise cybersecurity infrastructure for threat detection, monitoring, and response.
• Assist in deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of security technologies across the enterprise environment.
• Develop and maintain integrations between security platforms, logging systems, and other enterprise tools.
• Support ingestion, normalization, and management of large volumes of security telemetry and log data.
• Create and maintain automation scripts and workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot system performance, data flow issues, and platform reliability across security tooling.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts to improve monitoring capabilities and investigative workflows.
• Participate in upgrades, patching, and configuration management of cybersecurity platforms.
• Document system architecture, procedures, and configuration standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to onboard new data sources and capabilities.
• Assist with tuning, optimization, and scaling of security monitoring platforms.
• Provide technical support during cybersecurity incidents when platform-level expertise is required.

Skills

IT Security

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

REST APIs / Microservices / CI/CD /Git

Cloud providers / Docker

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Cyber Security, IT, CS or related field

Tools

SIEM

IDS

NSM

SOAR

Job description

L3Harris is recruiting an Information Security Systems Engineer Intern to join the Melbourne, FL security team. The role focuses on supporting and maintaining enterprise cybersecurity infrastructure for threat detection, monitoring, and response, working with SOC analysts and incident response teams.

The intern will help deploy, configure, and maintain security technologies, develop integrations, and contribute to automation scripts to improve operational efficiency in a fast-paced environment.