Sobre este puesto de Cyber Security Engineer Internship en Trend Micro
TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.
At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.
AI Fearlessly.
OUR CULTURE
We hire for capability and potential — not credentials alone. At TrendAI, you get real access: to senior people, to genuinely hard problems, and to work that actually moves things forward. You will have a voice, an opinion, and the freedom to use both and to be the best part of yourself.
JOINING TRENDAI ON ITS AI NATIVE JOURNEY
TrendAI is on a deliberate path to become a fully AI Native company. This means rebuilding how we think, how we build, and how we operate, with AI at the foundation rather than bolted on at the edges.
If you join now, you are not walking into something already figured out — you are joining at the moment it is being built. The skills you develop here will make you genuinely formidable in one of the most in-demand areas in tech. The people who join at this stage will have had a hand in shaping what TrendAI becomes. That is a rare thing.
YOUR INTERNSHIP
This is a paid 8-month work placement where you will join TrendAI's Cyber Defence Team. You will also take part in our Career Success Ready Programme — designed to support you and to set you up for a successful career, not just to get through the placement.
We have a strong track record of converting placements into graduate roles. Over the last five years, 82% of our intern graduates have gone on to join us permanently. There may also be opportunities to travel to other European offices and work with colleagues from across the globe — we have 27 different nationalities in our Cork Operations Centre.
The Role
The successful candidate will work as a member of the European Cyber Defence team, based in Cork. This is an exciting opportunity in a high-octane role for a motivated and innovative person. The successful candidate will get exposure to a wide range of IT Skills such as Networking, Firewalls, NIDS/NIPS, Log Analysis, Systems Administration, Virtual Machines, Cloud Infrastructure, Active Directory, Windows Server, APIs, Python, Bash and Power Automate, while also getting exposure to AI and the latest threats with the freedom to focus on topics of interest. The exposure to these universal skills strongly correlates with the MTU IT Management and Cybersecurity course.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Support the business by reviewing logs, identifying potential security incidents and performing a root cause analysis.
- Automating repetitive tasks using languages such as PowerShell and Python or the Power Automate Platform.
- Patching/mitigating latest vulnerabilities.
- Troubleshooting network security issues.
- Identifying gaps in our current security.
- Phishing simulations and user security education.
- Utilising the Trend Micro product suite to protect our infrastructure (Apex One, Cloud One, Vision One, Deep Discovery).
- Work with members of the European Cyber Defence team to complete security projects.
- At times, work with other teams such as IT or other regional Cyber Defence teams.
- Documenting projects and writing up user guides for security solutions.
You Are
- Eager and quick to learn.
- Approachable, confident with a positive mind set.
- Analytical with excellent problem-solving ability.
- A good written and verbal communicator.
- Able to explain technical concepts in simple terms.
- A collaborative worker with team members and other stakeholders.
- Motivated and self-driven with good time management skills.
- Able to follow through, complete tasks and work to support others to complete their tasks within tight time limitations.
- Strive to improve internal security posture.
You Have
- Currently enrolled in a IT Management & Cybersecurity course, computer science or a related STEM discipline and eligible to undertake a work placement as part of your course.
- Avid interest in cyber security.
- Understanding of Operating Systems, particularly Windows.
- Working knowledge of Networking.
- An enquiring mind and are eager to find solutions for problems.
At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. We like to have fun while taking our culture seriously. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to this regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, nationality, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or veteran status. We do not allow discrimination or harassment of any kind.
