Campus Undergraduate Full-Time Associate

About the Role

The Enterprise Technology Services organization at American Express powers the company’s growth and innovation, driving competitive differentiation with speed. The team supports the delivery and operations of technology, digital, and data capabilities, platforms, and services globally, focusing on technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, providing 24x7 support. They also manage core enterprise platforms, technology risk, information security, enterprise data governance, digital product and design, and enterprise AI platforms.

As a Cybersecurity Analyst in Enterprise Technology Services, you will join a full-time graduate program contributing to the protection of 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

• Support monitoring of security systems and events using various tools, alerts, and logs to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring timely detection and prevention of security or operational issues.
• Triage and investigate security or operational issues to determine root causes, impacts, and potential mitigation strategies, helping to prevent future incidents and minimize damage.
• Support secure network, endpoint, identity, access management, application security, and cloud security activities under guidance.
• Assist with security documentation, assessment findings, remediation tracking, reporting, and control implementation activities to support compliance and security posture improvements.
• Collaborate with software development and product teams to help integrate security into the software development lifecycle and support secure coding practices.
• Research emerging cyber threats, security technologies, AI-enabled security risks, and control approaches to support team knowledge and decision-making.
• Use AI-enabled cybersecurity tools to support threat detection, alert triage, analysis, documentation, and investigation activities, validating outputs before escalation or implementation.
• Support security control implementation and monitoring approaches for cloud-based, AI-enabled, or enterprise technology services.
• Apply structured prompt design techniques when using AI agent-enabled security tools, including clear context, objectives, constraints, and security requirements.
• Collaborate across cybersecurity, engineering, product, risk, operations, and business teams to strengthen secure technology delivery and enterprise risk reduction.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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 technologies.
• Strong communication, collaboration, analytical thinking, discretion, attention to detail, and learning agility with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Awareness of AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities and emerging risks such as prompt injection, model misuse, data exposure, AI-assisted security operations, and automation-enabled analysis.

Qualifications

• Must have earned a Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Engineering, or another technical field before the full-time start date.
• Students must have a 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 used to investigate alerts, analyze threats, document findings, or support remediation activities.
• Interest in application security, secure coding, DevSecOps, cloud security, IAM, data security, network security, or AI security.
• Strong problem solving, curiosity, ownership, professionalism, ethical judgment, and comfort learning new technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required.