2026 Summer Internship - Security Operations Intern
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About this role
Best Egg is seeking a Security Operations Intern who is eager to contribute to a cross-functional security team and gain hands-on experience in cybersecurity operations, reporting, and vulnerability management. You can expect to work in a collaborative environment that values continuous improvement, data-driven decision making, knowledge sharing, and practical security outcomes.
This role will report to the Information Security – Security Operations team
Best Egg is seeking a Security Operations Intern who is eager to contribute to a cross-functional security team and gain hands-on experience in cybersecurity operations, reporting, and vulnerability management. You can expect to work in a collaborative environment that values continuous improvement, data-driven decision making, knowledge sharing, and practical security outcomes.
This role will report to the Information Security – Security Operations team
Best Egg is seeking a Security Operations Intern who is eager to contribute to a cross-functional security team and gain hands-on experience in cybersecurity operations, reporting, and vulnerability management. You can expect to work in a collaborative environment that values continuous improvement, data-driven decision making, knowledge sharing, and practical security outcomes. This role will report to the Information Security – Security Operations team
You will spend most of your time
- Developing and maintaining security operations metrics and dashboards to improve visibility into SOC performance and support data-driven decision making
- Analyzing security data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement, and presenting findings to the team.
- Supporting vulnerability management efforts by analyzing and helping drive remediation of out-of-SLA vulnerabilities across Service Desk, Infrastructure, and Product teams, improving SLA adherence and reducing risk exposure.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand remediation challenges and help drive resolution of security findings.
- Contributing to the improvement of security processes, including reporting, ticket workflows, and escalation paths.
- Assisting in documenting and refining security runbooks and operational procedures.
What you will learn
- How a modern Security Operations function measures effectiveness and drives improvement through metrics.
- How security operations aligns to business objectives and balances risk reduction with operational constraints.
- Real-world vulnerability management, including prioritization, risk trade-offs, and remediation workflows across different business teams.
- How to communicate security risk clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- How security teams partner with engineering, infrastructure, and support teams to influence outcomes.
- How to identify operational inefficiencies and recommend practical improvements.
- Exposure to enterprise security tools, processes, and frameworks used in a cloud-based fintech environment.
Ideal fit for the role
- Interest in cybersecurity, security operations, or risk management.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an interest in working with data.
- Ability to communicate clearly and professionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable organizing information and identifying patterns or trends.
- Demonstrated curiosity and a willingness to learn new tools, technologies, and concepts.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a team.
- Background in cybersecurity, information systems, computer science, or related fields (or equivalent practical interest/experience).