Cloud Security Intern
Required skills
- Cloud Cybersecurity
- internship
- GPA 3.5
- Spring 2028
- Fall 2027
- AWS
- security challenges
- Tanium Cloud
- Security operations
- DevOps security
Nice to have
- prior internship
Role summary
Tanium is seeking Cloud Cybersecurity Interns to gain real-world experience in securing business-to-business security applications. Interns will work with a mentor on a selected project, delivering it by the end of the internship and presenting their work to the R&D team. Projects may involve implementing security controls, DevOps security tools, or improving dashboards and monitoring for security operations. This hybrid role requires working from the Durham, NC office at least three days a week. The internship runs from June 7, 2027, to August 13, 2027, with an hourly rate of $55.00, plus a housing stipend and other benefits. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S., available full-time for the internship duration, be current Bachelor's degree candidates with a GPA of 3.5 or above, graduating in Spring 2028 or Fall 2027, and have some experience with cloud platforms like AWS.
The Basics:
At Tanium, Cloud Cybersecurity Interns have the opportunity to gain valuable, real-world experience in securing business to business security focused applications. Working with a mentor in our Cloud Cybersecurity team you’ll select a project vetted by our mentors.
While being supported by your 1-1 mentor and working with our engineers, you’ll deliver your project throughout the course of the internship and present your work to Tanium’s R&D team at the end.
Examples of projects include:
This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the Durham, NC office a minimum of three days per week.
The hourly rate for this internship is $55.00. This hourly rate is an estimate for what Tanium will pay an intern. The actual rate offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to an hourly rate, interns will be eligible for a housing stipend, 401k matching, and a monthly allowance for communications reimbursement.
What you’ll do:
We are looking for someone who is:
About Tanium
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.
The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.
To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
On a mission. Together.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most. Interns and other Tanium contractors are eligible for VTO after 90 days of employment.
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