What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cybersecurity Intern position at St Lukes Health System (Boise ID)?
Overview
Cybersecurity Intern
St Luke’s
As the state's largest healthcare organization, a strong, professional staff is at the heart of St. Luke’s. St. Luke’s is committed to personal and professional growth, continued education, a positive work environment, community health and excellent patient care.
We value work-life balance, and we also value our dedicated employees, engaging them at every level and fostering opportunities for career advancement.
Position Overview
Health care organizations continually face evolving cyberthreats. Cyberattacks come in many forms, from ransomware to theft of personal information. Our primary aim is to protect and preserve our capability for care by reducing our cybersecurity risk.
We are seeking a motivated savvy individual, with ability to communicate, strong technical capabilities with problem solving skills, team player and enthusiasm to learn in an inclusive and positive work environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in cybersecurity, healthcare operations, and project management.
The cybersecurity interns report to the Office of the CISO. The intern will have opportunities to interact with all Cyber Security teams to gain insight into protection, defense, and risk processes, as well as specialized security tools. Based on organizational needs and keeping into account candidate’s interest and strengths, the cybersecurity intern will contribute to activities like the following:
- Cybersecurity Roadmap and Cybersecurity Metrics Program
- Development of defensive and offensive enhancements to increase organization security posture
- Cybersecurity assessments, policies and standards
- Process Engineering activities, automation, dashboard implementation or discovering and documenting “As-Is” and “To-Be” processes.
- Exposure to different security activities, i.e., incident response training
Soft Skills
- Critical thinking, problem solving and ethical mindset
- Self-driven, passion for learning, excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to carry out assigned projects to completion, multitasking, and being readily able to cope with change
- Maintains confidentiality in matters relating to company and employee information
- Organization, persistency, teamwork, flexibility, creativity, and outside-the-box thinking
Preferred Qualifications
- Must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate college or university program with a focus on Cybersecurity, Computer Science with Emphasis in Cybersecurity or a related technical field with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
What’s in it for you
At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Virgin Pulse Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.
St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.
*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.
