Cyber Security Engineer Intern - Summer 2025

IEX (IEX Group, Inc.) is an exchange operator and technology company dedicated to innovating for performance in capital markets. Founded in 2012, IEX launched a new kind of securities exchange in 2016 that combines a transparent business model and unique architecture designed to protect investors. Today, IEX applies its proprietary technology and experience to drive performance across asset classes, serve all investors, and advocate for transparent and competitive markets.

As a Cyber Security Engineer Intern with the Information Security Team, you will work with individuals across the organization to help advance IEX's security posture. This is a cross-functional opportunity where you will be able to leverage your security knowledge, software, and/or engineering skills to help IEX set new standards and raise the bar for performance, fairness, and transparency.

As an intern, you will help us build or bolster solutions that are required to protect or monitor the enterprise.

About you:

• Self-starter who is proactive and entrepreneurial
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• You are passionate about information security
• Have knowledge of technology and security topics including operating systems, network security, protocols, application security, infrastructure hardening and security baselines
• You are not afraid to ask questions and independently research solutions to find the answers and apply them to your work

What you'll do:

• Help IEX Information Security implement security tooling enhancements
• Provide meaningful impact to IEX Information Security. Your work will not sit on a shelf, collecting dust. Leave a legacy!
• Gain skills applicable to your future career
• Work alongside a strong team of InfoSec practitioners
• Learn more about how security works in a Financial Services enterprise

Your background:

• Undergraduate working towards a degree in Information Security, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree with less than two years until graduation
• Experience scripting or coding (e.g., Python, PowerShell, using API’s, etc.)
• Experience with endpoint/network hardening or logging
• Experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR and/or DLP technologies
  
  

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting base pay is $30.00/hour for this NY-based position. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Here at IEX, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and culture. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. This policy not only complies with all applicable laws and protects workers' rights but is vital to IEX’s overall mission and values.