Cybersecurity Intern: OT/ICS Risk & Defense

Rockwell Automation, Inc.; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k

Flexible Work Schedule

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a cybersecurity intern to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of SIC products. The role is based in Milwaukee, WI or Chelmsford, MA, offering hands-on risk assessments, vulnerability management, and secure product development involvement.

You will develop Python tools, automate evidence collection, and integrate data across engineering and security platforms. Expected to collaborate with senior engineers and participate in OT/ICS security activities in a

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or advanced degree from an accredited college or university.
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required - we will not sponsor individuals for employment visas.

Responsibilities

• Perform Product Cybersecurity Risk Assessments.
• Help develop audit-ready assessment reports, compliance evidence, and maintaining end-to-end traceability between requirements, threats, controls, and verification artifacts.
• Support risk disposition, exception management, and remediation tracking workflows.
• Support Threat Modeling & Secure Product Development.
• Participate in architectural threat-modeling sessions across early concept through sustaining product lifecycles.
• Help evaluate hardware, firmware, software, and communication interfaces from an attacker’s perspective to identify assets, trust boundaries, and attack paths.
• Help engineering teams evaluate and resolve identified product security vulnerabilities.
• Analyze OT / ICS Security & Industrial Protocols.
• Hands-on exposure to OT and ICS architectures, PLCs, and defense-in-depth network segmentation.
• Test protocols with EtherNet/IP, CIP, and Modbus.
• Help with test harness execution, packet-level analysis, and security verification of industrial control devices.
• Manage Vulnerabilities & SBOMs; perform CVE analysis and remediation prioritization.
• Ingest SBOMs and correlate with vulnerabilities and device configurations.
• Build automated scripts and workflows to improve vulnerability evaluation, reporting, and SBOM data aggregation.
• Build Product Security Automation & Enterprise Integrations.
• Design Python-based tools and pipelines to automate evidence collection, data normalization, metrics generation, and reporting.
• Develop REST API integrations to query data across tools like ThreatModeler, Jama Connect, Jira, SAP; parse JSON/XML/YAML.

Skills

Cybersecurity fundamentals

Python

REST APIs

Lab/bench testing

Linux

Git/CI/CD

Kali Linux

Jira/Jama Connect

SBOM

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Engineering/Cybersecurity

Tools

Jira

Jama Connect

Git

Docker

Ansible

REST APIs

Job description

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a cybersecurity intern to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of SIC products. The role is based in Milwaukee, WI or Chelmsford, MA, offering hands-on risk assessments, vulnerability management, and secure product development involvement.

You will develop Python tools, automate evidence collection, and integrate data across engineering and security platforms. Expected to collaborate with senior engineers and participate in OT/ICS security activities in a