Security Consultant Intern, Google Public Sector, Summer 2025

About the position

The Security Consultant Intern at Google Public Sector is a unique opportunity for students in their penultimate academic year to gain hands-on experience in cybersecurity. This 12-14 week paid internship focuses on guiding public sector organizations through their cloud journey, ensuring their Google Cloud environments are secure, compliant, and resilient. Interns will work closely with clients to understand their security challenges and objectives, contributing to the development of cybersecurity programs and tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on building and/or maturing cybersecurity programs and the implementation of tools and technologies used for enterprise security.
• Contribute to cloud-based customer environment reviews, supporting team members that assess networks and make recommendations.
• Identify and respond to logged security events or misconfigurations that could lead to security events.
• Support the creation of whitepapers, along with customer-facing slides, reports, and roadmaps, as well as produce engineering documentation and architectural design.

Requirements

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree or post-secondary training experience with a focus on Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related fields.
• Experience with the cybersecurity investigative process or incident response environments.
• Experience with cyber defense.
• Experience with cybersecurity domains.

Nice-to-haves

• Currently attending a degree program in the US and available to work full time for 12-14 weeks outside of university term time.
• Understanding of methodologies to discover security tool vulnerabilities and gaps in regulatory compliance.
• Understanding of common cyber attacks, and basic measures to detect and prevent them.

Benefits

• Paid internship
• Personal and professional development opportunities
• Executive speaker series
• Community-building activities