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FANNIE MAE Campus - Cybersecurity Program Intern (Flexible Hybrid) in Reston, Virginia
Job Description With Fannie Mae’s 10-week (June 2025 - August 2025) paid internship program you will be empowered to drive change, lead with creativity, own your career, and make a difference. As a path to our full-time opportunities, you will be a true contributor on a team that fits your skills and interest in a dynamic environment alongside our employees.
THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Chief Information Security Office helps the enterprise protect information systems and data from cybersecurity threats while supporting business needs.
As a Cybersecurity Program Intern, you will enjoy the challenge of researching threats, deploying, and leveraging automation, and reducing risk to the company. You will thrive in an environment where you can collaborate and learn from other cybersecurity professionals. Through hands-on experience and interaction with some of the greatest technology teams in the industry, you will gain experience and understanding in producing solutions to meet our corporate goals.
As a valued colleague on our team, you may contribute to designing, producing, testing, or implementing software, technology, or processes, as well as contribute to creating and maintaining IT architecture, cloud-based systems, data infrastructure, data analytics platforms, and securing against cyber security threats. Our interns collaborate with senior staff to help implement modern technologies and maintain tools using industry standard best practices. This opportunity will allow you to apply your fundamental knowledge of a process-driven approach in designing solutions for our customers and internal partners.
The Technologies
Determined by the function you support; you may learn and work with technologies and frameworks such as:
Information Security
Access Management (ex: Ping Identity, Multi Factor Authentication)
Application Security
Cyber Analytics and Reporting (ex: SQl, Tableau)
Cyber Risk and Governance
Data Protection and Monitoring
Information Security Architecture
Network Security /End Point Security
Project Management, Agile Process Development and ; Delivery (ex: Jira, Confluence)
Threat Detection and Response
Red Teaming/Purple Teaming
Vulnerability Management
Controls Automation (ex: Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, CICD pipeline)
AWS (Amazon Web Services) Developer Tools
Exles of intern tasks and projects include:
Scanning and remediation support for cyber security programs
Providing support to application teams for patching or upgrading systems
Recommending and executing improvements to cyber security process and technology
Creating scalable, automated solutions to support business needs
Testing to ensure solutions are compatible and retain sustainability
Managing data platforms and tools, monitoring production logs, analyzing data to determine root cause, and coordinating with users to triage issues
Ensuring sensitive data is governed throughout the technology ecosystem and prevent data loss
Create and maintain architecture diagrams for key software applications
Design and maintain JIRA service desks
Qualifications THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM
Minimum Qualifications
Be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
Academic achievement (GPA of 3.0 or above)
Preferred Qualifications
Rising senior enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program, or student enrolled in master’s degree program (Fall 2025/2026 graduation date).
Cybersecurity, Information Systems/Technology majors are preferred. Other technical majors will be considered based on a candidate’s technical experience and/or aptitude
Technology related certification(s) (ex: Security+, AWS Cloud)
Understanding of access management, vulnerabilities, risk
Knowledge of security frameworks, models, and concepts
Strong analytical skills to perform effective troubleshooting
Basic understanding of cybersecurity framework (ex: NIST, OWASP)
Demonstrated leadership capabilities and the ability to contribute to a team
Self-starter, strong business acumen, and results focused
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at careers_mailbox@fanniemae.com.
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