Student Intern Cybersecurity Summer 2027

Entergy is seeking a student intern for its cybersecurity organization during a full-time summer 2027 program. The intern will gain hands-on experience across cloud infrastructure, networks, platforms, application security, cyber data analysis, automation, network defense, offensive security, and cyber risk assessments while collaborating with cybersecurity professionals.

What you'll do:

• As an intern, you’ll dive into a wide range of real-world challenges across one or more cyber domains, such as cloud infrastructure, networks, platforms, and application security
• Our Cyber interns work closely together to collaborate on projects ranging from cyber data analysis and automations, to defending networks through analysis and monitoring of systems, to assessing software, systems and networks for vulnerabilities and flaws
• You will work alongside Cyber associates, supporting network defense, offensive security, cyber risk assessments, and more
• A challenging role where you’ll collaborate with a diverse and passionate team of talented cybersecurity professionals
• Mentorship and training through meetups, conferences, and tech talks to build out your skillset on topics such networking, software development, systems engineering, financial and risk analysis, security intelligence
• Exposure to Technology and Cyber executives and a diverse network
• The opportunity to rotate roles and work with a variety of tools and technologies
• Your presentation skills in front of our stakeholder audience
• As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company

What they're looking for:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree or higher with an expectation in a technical and/or quantitative discipline, including computer science, computer engineering, cyber security, information assurance, information systems, information technology, or mathematics with understanding of cyber security concepts such as: operating systems analysis (MS Windows/MacOS) and network forensics, knowledge of the basics of network security and protocols (e.g., encryption, firewalls, authentication, honey pots, perimeter protection)
• Current minimum GPA requirement for students to be considered for this position is 2.8
• Strong interest in cybersecurity and a desire to explore multiple domains before specializing
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, networking, operating systems, and security concepts
• Coursework in IT fundamentals, cloud security, cryptography, network security, and/or data security
• Knowledge of industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks (NIST Cybersecurity Framework, MITRE ATT&CK
• Up to 25%
• Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position
• Working level programming skills or experience in one or more of the following areas: Java, Python, C#, C/C++, JSON, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell scripts) would be great

Benefits:

• Full-time paid internship program spanning from early June through mid-August 2027
• Mentorship and training through meetups, conferences, and tech talks
• Exposure to Technology and Cyber executives and a diverse network
• The opportunity to rotate roles and work with a variety of tools and technologies