Campus Undergraduate Full-Time Associate

About the Role

The Enterprise Technology Services organization partners with every part of American Express to power the company’s growth and innovation. This team supports technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, providing 24x7 support. They also manage core enterprise platforms, lead technology risk and information security, and oversee enterprise data governance and platforms.

As a Cybersecurity Analyst in Enterprise Technology Services, you will join a full-time graduate program and contribute to protecting American Express information systems, customer data, colleague experiences, and digital assets. Cybersecurity teams identify, reduce, monitor, and respond to technology and information security risks.

In this role, you may support:

• Cybersecurity operations
• Security architecture
• Identity and access management
• Endpoint protection
• Application security
• Security monitoring
• Cloud security
• Documentation
• AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows

You will collaborate with cybersecurity teams, product partners, software development teams, operations teams, and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor security systems and events using tools, alerts, and logs to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities.
• Triage and investigate security or operational issues to determine root causes, impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Support secure network, endpoint, identity, access management, application security, and cloud security activities.
• Assist with security documentation, assessment findings, remediation tracking, reporting, and control implementation.
• Collaborate with software development and product teams to integrate security into the software development lifecycle.
• Research emerging cyber threats, security technologies, AI-enabled security risks, and control approaches.
• Use AI-enabled cybersecurity tools for threat detection, alert triage, analysis, documentation, and investigation.
• Support security control implementation and monitoring for cloud-based, AI-enabled, or enterprise technology services.
• Apply structured prompt design techniques when using AI agent-enabled security tools.
• Collaborate across cybersecurity, engineering, product, risk, operations, and business teams to strengthen secure technology delivery and enterprise risk reduction.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Engineering, or another technical field.
• Foundational understanding of cybersecurity, information security, application security, network security, cloud security, or technology risk concepts.
• Foundational knowledge of network protocols, security fundamentals, identity and access management, data privacy, data protection, or secure software development concepts.
• Interest in scripting or automation using languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Strong communication, collaboration, analytical thinking, discretion, attention to detail, and learning agility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduation date between December 2026 and June 2027.
• Coursework, projects, internships, labs, competitions, research, or extracurricular experience in cybersecurity, information security, artificial intelligence, machine learning, software development, cloud, data, networking, or technology risk.
• Awareness of security standards, regulatory compliance, data privacy, data protection, security governance, and risk management concepts.
• Familiarity with security monitoring, threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, endpoint protection, network security, or identity and access management concepts.
• Exposure to security tools, platforms, or operational processes.
• Interest in application security, secure coding, DevSecOps, cloud security, IAM, data security, network security, or AI security.
• Awareness of AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities and emerging risks.
• Interest in cybersecurity certifications or continued learning.
• Strong problem-solving, curiosity, ownership, professionalism, and ethical judgment.

About Us

American Express is a global services company providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives. We operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

About the Team

The Enterprise Technology Services organization partners with every part of American Express to power growth and innovation. This team provides 24x7 support for technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, ensuring an uninterrupted experience for customers and colleagues. They also lead technology risk and information security, enterprise data governance and platforms, digital product and design, and enterprise AI platforms.