Security Operations Intern: Incident Response & Threat Hunting

3M HEALTHCARE; United States; Remote; USD 24,796 - 28,929; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement savings plan

Life insurance

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking an EIC Information Security Operations Engineer Intern to join the Global Security Operations Center and enhance security alerts, responses, and remediation. You will work across incident management to remove threats and collaborate with IT security teams to maintain a secure environment.

The role emphasizes proactive threat hunting, telemetry analysis, and applying security frameworks while supporting incident response lifecycle and policy implementation.

Qualifications

• Junior or Senior pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related degree.
• Experience in security domain with exposure to tools such as CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Palo Alto, Mimecast, MS Defender is a plus.
• Highly skilled and knowledgeable within the Microsoft environment and toolset.
• Energetic and a quick learner.
• Good communication skills with a positive attitude.
• A willingness to learn new technology.
• Experienced in incident response lifecycle and SLAs.
• Any Security Certification is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the regional point of contact for security escalations/requests and escalates requests to Security architecture as needed.
• Responsible for the identification and assessment of enterprise risks.
• Identifies, evaluates, and tests appropriate security products, tools, and systems to ensure alignment with the CushWake global security posture.
• Articulates security policies, guidelines and standards to customers and developers.
• Able to apply theories, concepts, principles, and methodologies to difficult but conventional assignments.
• Assigns assignments in terms of objectives to be met.
• Works independently within an established framework.
• Develop techniques and procedures for conducting IS and cyber security risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware, and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents.
• Implement IS and cyber security policies and take measures against intrusion, frauds, attacks, or leaks.
• Continue to build knowledge of the organization, processes, and customers.
• Performs a range of straightforward assignments. Use prescribed guidelines or policies to analyze and resolve problems.
• Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction.
• Partners with Security Architecture on critical scope delivery.
• Reviews security INC(s) to ensure proper processes have been followed and to identify additional IoA(s)/IoC(s).
• Perform proactive threat hunting using hypothesis, and telemetry from endpoints, identities, cloud and network to identify malicious activity, abnormal behaviors, and emerging attacker techniques.
• Serves as the security stakeholder for IR/MIM activities until Security Architecture and/or senior leadership can engage.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

SIEM

EDR

Security architecture

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering/Info Security

Tools

Zscaler

CrowdStrike

Mimecast

Wiz

MS Defender

Palo Alto

Job description

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking an EIC Information Security Operations Engineer Intern to join the Global Security Operations Center and enhance security alerts, responses, and remediation. You will work across incident management to remove threats and collaborate with IT security teams to maintain a secure environment.

The role emphasizes proactive threat hunting, telemetry analysis, and applying security frameworks while supporting incident response lifecycle and policy implementation.