DevSecOps Intern (Summer 2025)

Wanted: A Budding Master-Builder of Security-Centric Automation 

(Also known as a DevSecOps Automation Intern)

EMBARK ON YOUR JOURNEY

We invite you to join Entara and start your journey as a DevSecOps Automation Intern. In the face of ever-increasing, complex threats and dynamic security events, Entara has embarked on a journey to build the world’s first eXtended Service Provider (XSP). We have earned our stripes on the frontlines, rebuilding organizations in the aftermath of ransomware attacks. We are in the midst of expanding our DevSecOps practice as we respond to the demand for a top-tier, AI-focused automation team.

Our fast-tracked, internship programs are where many EntaraCorps began their career progression into both positions that influence our clients’ lives on a daily basis. This is an opportunity to enhance your skills with hands-on experience by working as part of a small, focused team responsible for refining and automating playbooks, processes, and technology solutions that range from common client needs to unique and complex issues for individual clients. 

As a DevSecOps Automation Intern, you will work within our DevSecOps Team. Your role will support the creation, implementation, and optimization of automation systems which increase our productivity and reduce overhead. You will engage in understanding our toolsets, refine and automate playbooks, and collaborate with senior engineers ensuring best outcomes, growing your skillset, and contributing your own project-based work. Entara's universe is vast, and we're on the hunt for a budding master-builder with a foundational knowledge in programming, a natural eye for optimization,  and a burning drive to dive deep into the realms of business process automation—Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and help us develop automation solutions that will have Entara and our clients singing “everything is awesome”?

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

(Otherwise known as the fine print, the list of job tasks and responsibilities.)

Our DevSecOps Automation Intern will run in the trenches -- optimizing our environment, answering client and internal automation requests, and developing business process automations. Time will be spent developing automation, working toward eliminating inefficiencies from our internal team’s and external client’s work. Our DevSecOps Automation Intern will be primarily engaged within a focused team and will report directly to our DevSecOps and Platform Manager.

Given we are a remote company, our internship is 100% remote- allowing us to interface with budding security professionals across the United States.

Anticipated Internship Dates: Twelve consecutive weeks, running from: Monday, June 2, 2025-Friday, August 22, 2025. Interns are expected to work Entara’s standard working hours: 8am-5pm CST Monday-Friday.

Our DevSecOps Intern is expected to:

Gain valuable hands-on experience at a fast-paced eXtended Service Provider landscape:

• Understand Entara’s Ticketing Systems & Documentation
• Receive training on security and automation best practices
• Shadow with additional service teams: gain exposure to the work of Entara’s internal Cybersecurity Services Team, resulting in an immersive summer experience.

Learn and Evolve Automation Practices

• Proactively maintain toolsets by following standard auditing and maintenance guidelines.
• Learn and employ skills to assist in the development of process and toolset optimization.
• Identify patterns in requests and incidents, and ways to improve processes and responses.
• Work on project sprint tasks and goals in an Agile and Scrum-based project environment.
• Work with teams across Entara to ensure best practices regarding automation are understood, implemented, and documented.
• Identify when security tools add new features and functionality, and best practices need adjusted or improved.

Learn and Improve Incident Response Playbooks and Security Automation

• Work with Entara’s DevOps Engineers and CyberSecurity Services Team to automate incident response and playbook actions and identify improvements to automation for Reactive issues and requests.
• Learn and maintain an awareness of current security threats and trends in order to improve responses, documentation, and automation where available.
• Enhance and establish orchestration to improve Entara’s Reactive team’s response times and capabilities.

Complete Assigned Summer Project & Project Based Tasks

• Break down your personal summer project into actional steps, leveraging an Agile and Scrum-based project methodology.
• Assist with opportunities for process efficiency or toolset automation.
• Prepare to present findings and project results to applicable Entara team(s).

Meet Measurables

• Record your work according to Entara process, including but not limited to:
• Change Requests
• Incident and Request Ticket Work Notes and Communication
• Time Worked Entries
• Client SLA adherence

WHO YOU ARE: REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• You’re a knowledge seeker. Regardless of method, you have obtained and exposed yourself to knowledge centers that have qualified you to understand technical and security fundamentals. You are ideally pursuing a related Bachelor’s degree (i.e. Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or Information Technology). Regardless of where you are in your education journey, you are seeking an opportunity to put your current knowledge into action and gain real-world experience to accelerate your career trajectory.

• You have experience working on projects aligned with the work of Systems Engineering, IT Support, Computer Development, Automation Engineering or Information Security and utilize popular code repositories like Github.

• You have former experience working within a team-oriented, collaborative environment via a mix of past projects, positions, or clubs that required collaboration.

• You have a programmer’s mindset, a hunger to learn, and a knack to strategically problem solve – fitting many pieces together like a LEGO Master Builder.

• You desire to learn and employ API integration and transform business processes into more efficient and effective workflows.

• You love clean, neat, and simple code. You have experience in software development, an interest in DevOps and ideally have worked on platforms involving programming languages like Python or Go.

• You have experience in at least one scripting language i.e: PowerShell, CMD, etc.

• You are ideally familiar with Agile methodology and are ready to employ that knowledge working through sprint schedules.

• You are a technical quick-study and skilled at researching and self-training on custom applications, and knowledge sharing with team members to provide collective knowledge gain.

• You are considered an excellent verbal and written communicator, with the ability to translate technical terminology with ease.

• You are ready to be an effective remote worker located in the United States. You have a dedicated, private space for a home office with a reliable, private internet connection with at least 50MBPS bandwidth. Public wifi and shared common spaces do not meet these standards.

• Entara will supply you with the tools and hardware to complete your tasks remotely. This includes a standard setup: laptop, dual monitors, dock, headset, webcam, and optional keyboard and mouse. Interns will return this equipment to Entara at the conclusion of their internship. 

• You are available for the full-time summer internship term. Anticipated Internship Dates: Twelve consecutive weeks, running from: Monday, June 2, 2025-Friday, August 22, 2025. Interns are expected to work Entara’s standard working hours: 8am-5pm CST Monday-Friday.

• You desire to contribute to a team culture that fosters & lives by our core values: 
  • Empathy: I put team and client before self.
  • Excellence: I find inner joy in producing excellence. 
  • Execution: I value execution over intention in myself & others.
  • Evolution: I am future-fascinated. Improvement is a lifelong quest.  

WHO WE ARE

Founded in 2001, Entara is an eXtended Service Provider (XSP) focused on providing cutting edge technology and cyber security solutions to companies in regulated industries. With our roots in providing service to the electronic trading market, we are known for growing with the pace of technological change and the developing security needs of our clients. We are redefining ourselves - and our industry - and creating a new class of service providers, XSPs, because we recognize that MSPs and MSSPs are no longer what our clients need. Downward pressure from both regulators and insurance providers convinced us that it was time to integrate our IT and cyber security offerings and deliver strategic, future facing solutions for our clients.  

In order to build, maintain, and optimize these types of solutions, we need high-performing, highly-collaborative teammates who are excited to join in this journey with us. There are several reasons why employees love being a part of the Entara team. We’ve been recognized as one of Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For since 2017. We are a remote-first workplace. We seek to build a team that’s brought together by more than just skills, but who embrace a personal-alignment to the values that precede the work we deliver: Empathy, Excellence, Execution, and Evolution. If this sounds like you, let’s connect and discover if we have the foundation to build something great together.  

WHAT YOU GET IN RETURN

You’ll have a direct impact on our operations, our clients, and our fellow EntaraCorps members. Because of that impact, you’ll get our respect and gratitude for the role you play in making Entara the best it can be.

We’ll provide you with skills, training, responsibility and opportunities to grow, both at Entara and wherever your career takes you in the future. (However, we hope you’ll be successful here for a good, long time.)

Here are some of the perks we currently offer our interns:

• Competitive, hourly pay: $20/hr
• Inclusion in Company-wide training events and development opportunities.
• Scheduled time to showcase your completed summer project in a presentation to some fellow EntaraCorp teammates as an endcap to your summer!