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Internship Programme – Undergraduate Information Security Engineer – 2027 (UK – Burgess Hill)
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American Express
Burgess Hill
American Express is recruiting for the role of Campus – Internship Programme – Undergraduate Information Security Engineer – 2027 (UK – Burgess Hill). This internship supports work that helps protect information systems, customer data, colleague experiences, and digital assets. The role also contributes to cybersecurity activities including secure architecture, identity and access management, endpoint protection, security monitoring, and application security.
Role details
- Location: Burgess Hill
- Working pattern: Hybrid
- Job type: Full time
- Closing date: 23/10/2026
What you’ll do
- Support secure network, endpoint, identity, and access management activities with guidance.
- Assist with security documentation, assessment findings, remediation tracking, and reporting.
- Work with software development and product teams on security in the software development lifecycle.
- Research cyber threats, security technologies, AI-enabled security risks, and control approaches.
- Use AI-enabled cybersecurity tools for threat detection, alert triage, analysis, documentation, and investigation.
- Assist with security control implementation and monitoring for cloud-based, AI-enabled, or enterprise technology services.
- Apply structured prompt design techniques when using AI agent-enabled security tools.
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What they’re looking for
- Have a foundational understanding of cybersecurity, information security, application security, network security, cloud security, or technology risk concepts.
- Have foundational knowledge of network protocols, security fundamentals, identity and access management, data privacy, data protection, or secure software development concepts.
- Show interest in scripting or automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
- Bring strong communication, collaboration, analytical thinking, discretion, attention to detail, and learning agility.
- Have coursework, projects, internships, labs, competitions, research, or extracurricular experience in relevant technical areas.
- Be aware of security standards, regulatory compliance, data privacy, data protection, security governance, and risk management concepts.
- Show interest in cybersecurity certifications or continued learning.
- Demonstrate strong problem solving, curiosity, ownership, professionalism, ethical judgment, and comfort learning new technologies.
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Additional role information
- The internship is a 10-week Summer Internship Program.
- The role sits in Enterprise Technology Services.
- The team works in a global enterprise environment.
- Certifications are not required for intern-level consideration.
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