The board
- Where
- El Segundo, California, United States
- Posted
- 4 days ago
Low Earth orbit is open for business. Varda is accelerating the development of commercial space infrastructure, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. Varda’s W-Series vehicles are built, designed, and operated by Varda in-house, including the pharmaceutical processing payloads, the capsules, the C-PICA heat shields, and the satellite buses.
From life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optics, there is a world of products used on Earth today that can only be manufactured in space. Varda is accelerating innovation in the orbital economy by creating both the products and infrastructure needed so space can directly benefit life on Earth.
What you'd do
- Help review security alerts that come in each day. You will read them, decide what they are, and write down what you did about them.
- Help set up, fine tune, and improve the way our security tools are configured.
- These tools include Zscaler, CrowdStrike, ThreatLocker, Darktrace, and AlienVault.
- You will work with your lead to adjust settings, clean up noisy alerts, and make sure each tool is doing its job well.
- Help keep our security event logs up to date, so we have a clear record of what happened and how it was handled.
- Pull sample logs from our security tools and organize them, so we can show an auditor that we are watching the right things.
- Help keep track of the reports we get from our outside security partner, making sure they arrive on time and get filed in the right place.
- Help upload reports and updates into the software we use to track our compliance work.
- Work on one bigger summer project that you own from start to finish. You will pick this with your lead in the first week. Some examples: a report on gaps in our logging, a refreshed incident response guide, or a simple dashboard.
- How a information security team runs its day to day work when the company has to pass a security audit.
- How the things we do every day (looking at alerts, writing things down, storing logs) turn into the proof an auditor wants to see.
- Hands on use of real security tools that protect computers, networks, web traffic, software, and user accounts. You will get real practice setting up and improving tools like Zscaler, CrowdStrike, ThreatLocker, Darktrace, and AlienVault.
What they want
- You are a current undergrad in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, information systems, or a similar major.
- You have taken classes or taught yourself at least two of these: networking, how operating systems work, how user accounts and passwords are managed, how to respond to security incidents, or how to watch for security problems.
- You are comfortable reading logs and working with data in a spreadsheet. You know what a basic script is, even if you have not written many.
- You write clearly. You will be writing notes and reports that other people rely on.
- You are organized, you pay attention to details, and you are willing to ask questions when something is unclear.
- You are allowed to work in the United States for the full length of the internship without needing us to sponsor a visa.
- Fully stocked kitchen with lunch provided daily and dinner provided twice weekly
- Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and mission-success celebrations
- Complimentary EV charging
What you get
- Hourly Rate: $33.00
- Housing stipend for interns relocating to the area
- Commuter benefit to support local transportation