About the role#
This internship is part of the HPC and AI Data Center Administration team. You will work alongside systems administrators who manage the high-performance computing and AI laboratory systems used across Hewlett Packard Enterprise engineering. Your work focuses on the security, monitoring, and visibility of these systems. You will produce a system visibility baseline and create tools and documentation that the team will continue to use after your internship concludes.
What you'll do#
- Assist with inventory validation for HPC and AI lab systems.
- Review monitoring, logging, and vulnerability scanning coverage across a heterogeneous system fleet.
- Identify gaps in agent deployment, log forwarding, scan inclusion, and system ownership records.
- Build scripts, reports, or dashboards that summarize security visibility.
- Document hardening expectations and practical checklists for lab systems.
- Work with system administrators to validate findings and prioritize follow-up work.
- Present project results and recommendations at the end of the internship.
What you'll need#
- Currently enrolled in a degree program in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, information systems, computer engineering, network administration, or a related technical field.
- Working comfort on the Linux command line, including navigating filesystems, editing configuration files, inspecting services and logs, managing permissions, and troubleshooting without a GUI.
- Demonstrated hands-on Linux exposure through coursework, a personal lab, or prior professional experience.
- Scripting ability in Python or Bash.
- Familiarity with SSH key management, sudo, system services, and package management.
- Understanding of logging, monitoring, and vulnerability scanning concepts such as syslog, log forwarding, and agent-based collection.
- Exposure to Git or GitHub in a collaborative workflow.
- Working understanding of TCP/IP networking, firewalls, DNS, and Linux permissions.
- Experience with security or monitoring tools like Zabbix, Nessus, OpenSCAP, Wazuh, Splunk, Elastic, or Nmap.
- Exposure to configuration management or automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Salt.
- Ability to organize technical findings clearly in writing.
- Interest in cybersecurity, infrastructure, monitoring, automation, and large-scale compute environments.
Location & details#
- This is a full-time, paid internship.
- The role is hybrid, with a requirement to work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
- You must be able to work fully onsite in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, for the duration of the internship.
- Locations include Bloomington, Minnesota, and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise operates as a public IT services and consulting company. It functions as an edge-to-cloud business. The company maintains its headquarters in Houston, Texas. It employs 92,729 people across its global operations.
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