IT Security Engineer Internship - Summer 2027

Auto-Owners Insurance; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Auto-Owners Insurance, a top-rated carrier based in Lansing, MI, is seeking a Summer IT Security Engineer intern to join its IT Division. The role focuses on reducing IT security risk and responding to incidents for the company and its affiliates, with in-person, full‑time hours from mid-May to mid-August.

Candidates are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in IT Security or related field, with at least two years of coursework completed, and should demonstrate initiative, the ability to learn security

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in IT Security or related field with at least two years of coursework completed.
• Demonstrates initiative and motivation.
• Ability to learn security engineering, server/network/cloud security, authentication methods, encryption, and application security.
• Ability to document concepts clearly and participate in meetings.
• Ability to effectively share cybersecurity threats and context with team.

Responsibilities

• Enforce corporate IT security policies and regulatory requirements; uphold confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our infrastructure.
• Escalate incidents and alerts to vendors, team members, leadership, or other internal teams as needed.
• Administer, upgrade, and troubleshoot at least one security product/application.
• Provide status updates to leadership or other team members.
• Research, develop, maintain, and support security tools and mitigation policies.
• Investigate security incidents and assist with other duties as assigned.

Skills

IT Security

Threat Analysis

Incident Response

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT Security

Job description

A career at Auto-Owners is challenging and rewarding. Our group of caring associates create financial security by helping individuals and businesses make a new start when a loss occurs.

Job Description

Auto-Owners Insurance, a top-rated insurance carrier, is seeking a motivated intern to join our IT Division as an IT Security Engineer for the summer. This position is part of the IT Security department and is responsible for reducing IT Security risk and responding to incidents for the company and its affiliates.

Responsibilities

• Cultivating an environment of IT security compliance by enforcing corporate policies and facilitating corporate compliance with external regulatory requirements, technical standards, and best business practices in an effort to uphold confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our infrastructure.
• Escalating incidents and alerts to vendors, team members, leadership, or other internal teams as needed.
• Performing the following roles for at least one security product/application: administer, upgrade, and troubleshoot.
• Providing status updates to leadership or other team members.
• Researching, recommending, developing, maintaining, and supporting security software tools and policies for mitigation control.
• Investigating security incidents.
• Assist with other duties as assigned.

This internship has full-time hours (Monday through Friday) and is in person in Lansing, Michigan. Interns choose their start and end dates. Most join in mid-May and stay until mid-August.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Students must be working toward a bachelor's degree in IT Security, Information Assurance, Information Security & Intelligence, or similar major is required, having at least two years of coursework completed.
• Exhibit good initiative and motivation.
• Ability to effectively share the knowledge of current cybersecurity threats and their relevancy to the Company and its affiliates, with other team members.
• Ability to learn about several of the following areas: security engineering, server security, network security, cloud security, authentication methods, encryption protocols, and application security.
• Ability to learn and effectively use the security tools and security development techniques as practiced, acquired, or adopted within the Division.
• Ability to work with details, analyze information, logically solve problems, and communicate effectively.
• Ability to document concepts and skills learned for later reference.
• Ability to actively participate in meetings.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Auto-Owners Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. The Company hires, transfers, and promotes on the basis of ability, without consideration of disability, age, sex, race, color, religion, height, weight, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, or any factor contrary to federal, state or local law.

*Please note that the ability to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship is a requirement.

Auto-Owners Insurance is a mutual insurance company with a simple human sense approach to business. This means we answer the phone because it's ringing, we treat people like they're people, and we believe the right way is the human way. Established in 1916 and headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, we currently operate in 26 states. We partner with independent agencies to sell our products to the communities we serve, and we are consistently acknowledged for our superior customer service. We are proud to have been ranked among the Fortune 500 every year since 2002.