Summer 2025 - Cybersecurity Intern - 90338139

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As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

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Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a member of the Amtrak Cybersecurity team, the Intern will gain broad knowledge across all elements ofcybersecurity. The Intern will contribute to enterprise IT compliance programs; real-time monitoring, detection, andincident response of threats to information assets of Amtrak; cyber risk management and cyber threat intelligence;and technical security architecture assessments and engineering. The Intern will leverage team expertise, industrybest practices and research, and academic background to engage in work activities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Promote an understanding of cybersecurity roles, processes and activities to business units and IT departments
• Assist in the implementation of enterprise-wide security standards, procedures, and guidelines
• Assist in penetration testing and red team activities
• Assist in security engineering activities to include operations and maintenance of Amtrak’s security stack
• Assist with security investigations to determine root cause, impact, and remediation steps
• Monitor cybersecurity anomalies; investigate, resolve, and escalate cybersecurity incidents
• Search for potential exploits of vulnerabilities based on the user or entity behaviors, endpoint threat detection,network behavior analytics, alerts/alarms, and managed security reports
• Assist in security and compliance audits
• Support PCI and Financial Statement Audits
• Assist in privacy assessments and information governance projects
• Guide users on the usage and administration of security tools that control and monitor information security
• Support with governance of critical IT disciplines
• Assists in the development of Standard Operating Manuals for different process
• Generate, gather, and track security metrics, develop scorecards for the metrics, and communicate the results
• Support and participate in formal reporting
• Research, collect and analyze data
• Identify challenges/barriers and make recommendations
• Communicate effectively and professionally with key stakeholders

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be actively pursuing a degree at an accredited educational institution.
• Must be actively pursuing an undergraduate degree and have completed courses in Cyber Security, Information Security, Information Assurance, Computer Science, SecurityRisk Analysis, or similar discipline or holds a certificate related to information technology or cybersecurity.
• Must have at least 1 year of academic undergraduate studies completed or a sophomore status at minimum.
• Must have a cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher
• Can participate in an intern program for at least two consecutive semesters.
• Experience in Microsoft Office software suite, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Can participate in the intern program continuously until graduation
• Excellent vertten bal and wricommunication skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with competing priorities and tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently on specific tasks
• Working knowledge within IT operations and/or Service Management functions.
• Must possess excellent customer service, strong communication, and interpersonal skills, and work well withothers in an integrated team environment.
• Knowledgeable of reporting towards KPIs and industry best practices/benchmarks.
• Good analytical skills
• Experience working in a professional office setting

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

The hourly range is $17.50 per hour - $35.00 per hour. Pay is based on factors including school year, program of study, etc.  In addition, paid internships include Amtrak rail pass privileges as a part of the experience along with one (1) PTO day per academic year.

Summer 2025 internship program will run from May 19th - August 8, 2025.

Requisition ID:163493
Posting Location(s):District of Columbia; Maryland; Virginia

Work Arrangement:06-Onsite 
Job Family/Function:Information Technology 
Relocation Offered:No 
Travel Requirements:0 - 5% 

You power our progress through your performance.
 

We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions. 

Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen. 

Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.  

In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.

In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses. 

Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.