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Auto-Owners Insurance · 3 months ago

IT Security Engineer Intern - Summer 2026

Lansing, MI

Internship

Onsite

Intern

Start in 2026 Summer

Auto-Owners Insurance is a top-rated insurance carrier seeking a motivated intern to join their IT Division as an IT Security Engineer for the summer. The role involves reducing IT security risk, responding to incidents, and ensuring compliance with security policies and regulations.

Auto InsuranceInsuranceLife Insurance

No H1B

Responsibilities

Cultivating an environment of IT security compliance by enforcing corporate policies and facilitating corporate compliance with external regulatory requirements, technical standards, and best business practices in an effort to uphold confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our infrastructure

Escalating incidents and alerts to vendors, team members, leadership, or other internal teams as needed

Performing the following roles for at least one security product/application: administer, upgrade, and troubleshoot

Providing status updates to leadership or other team members

Researching, recommending, developing, maintaining, and supporting security software tools and policies for mitigation control

Investigating security incidents

Assist with other duties as assigned

Qualification

IT SecurityInformation AssuranceCybersecurity ThreatsSecurity EngineeringNetwork SecurityCloud SecurityMeeting ParticipationProblem SolvingEffective CommunicationDocumentation Skills

Required

Students must be working toward a bachelor's degree in IT Security, Information Assurance, Information Security & Intelligence, or similar major is required, having at least two years of coursework completed

Exhibit good initiative and motivation

Ability to effectively share the knowledge of current cybersecurity threats and their relevancy to the Company and its affiliates, with other team members

Ability to learn about several of the following areas: security engineering, server security, network security, cloud security, authentication methods, encryption protocols, and application security

Ability to learn and effectively use the security tools and security development techniques as practiced, acquired, or adopted within the Division

Ability to work with details, analyze information, logically solve problems, and communicate effectively

Ability to document concepts and skills learned for later reference

Ability to actively participate in meetings

The ability to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship is a requirement

Company

Auto-Owners Insurance

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We are a team of hard working associates and local, independent agents who are proud to be among the nation's largest insurers of Life, Home, Car, and Business; and consistently ranked as a Fortune 500 company since 2002.

Founded in 1916