SkillBridge Military Transition Program – Staff Security Engineer (Security Platforms & Automation) Trainee

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Overview

The Digital Information Security Engineering team is seeking a transitioning military service member to participate in a SkillBridge Staff Security Engineer role focused on hands-on security engineering, automation, and platform integration.

This SkillBridge opportunity is designed as an execution-driven, immersive training role, enabling the participant to apply military experience in operations, cyber defense, systems engineering, or communications to real-world enterprise security engineering challenges.

The participant will gain direct, practical experience in Python-based automation, secure API development, cloud security platforms, and modern DevSecOps workflows, while being supported by senior engineers and mentors. Experience or interest in AI-enabled security tooling and agentic workloads is welcomed but not required.

This role emphasizes learning through doing and prepares the service member for a full-time civilian security engineering career upon successful program completion.

Key Learning Objectives & Responsibilities

Security Platform & API Engineering

• Learn to design, build, and maintain secure APIs that expose security platform capabilities.
• Gain hands-on experience with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and abuse protection mechanisms.
• Work alongside experienced engineers using API gateways, service meshes, and service orchestration platforms.
• Contribute to API documentation, runbooks, and operational support materials.

Automation & Secure Development (Core Focus)

• Develop Python-based automation to streamline security workflows and operational tasks.
• Build integrations and scripts connecting security tools, SaaS platforms, and data sources.
• Learn how security is embedded into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Apply secure development lifecycle practices, including:
  • Threat modeling
  • Secure code review
  • Static and dynamic analysis

Data, AI, and Emerging Capabilities (Exposure)

• Observe and assist in evaluating AI-powered security tools and automation frameworks.
• Optional / Nice-to-have: Participate in the design or testing of agentic workflows, such as:
  • AI-assisted alert triage or correlation
  • Policy-driven automated response actions
• Learn governance, observability, and safe operational usage of AI in security environments.

Platform Reliability & Operations

• Understand how production security services meet availability, reliability, and performance objectives.
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident response for security APIs and services.
• Learn proactive risk identification and resilience planning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with product managers and software engineers to understand civilian enterprise engineering workflows.
• Translate requirements into secure technical designs under mentorship.
• Participate in peer reviews and technical discussions to build confidence in civilian engineering environments.

Leadership & Professional Development

Throughout the SkillBridge period, the participant will:

• Develop a platform and systems-thinking mindset
• Learn industry-standard engineering practices and documentation norms
• Receive informal mentorship and feedback from senior engineers
• Gain exposure to enterprise security decision-making and trade-offs
• Build a professional portfolio of real-world security engineering work

Qualifications (SkillBridge-Aligned)

Required

• Active-duty U.S. military service member approved for DoD SkillBridge participation
• Background in one or more of the following (from military experience, training, or self-study):
  • Cybersecurity operations
  • Information assurance
  • Network or systems administration
  • Software, scripting, or automation
  • Signals, communications, or IT operations
• Familiarity with at least one programming or scripting language
• (Python strongly preferred but not required at entry)
• Ability to obtain and maintain required access approvals

Desired / Nice-to-Have

• Experience with:
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP – military equivalents acceptable)
  • Containers or virtualization technologies
  • Security tools, SIEMs, or defensive cyber operations
• Interest in software development, automation, and platform engineering
• Prior leadership or technical responsibility in military roles

Note: Civilian degree requirements and years-of-experience expectations are intentionally flexible for SkillBridge participants. Military training, operational experience, and demonstrated aptitude are valued equally.

Common—but not required—military specialties include:

• Army: 17D, 17C, 25D, 170D

• Air Force / Space Force: 1B4X1, 1D7X1Z (Software Development Ops), 1D7X1D

• Navy: CWT / CTN

• Marine Corps: 1721
  
  *Skillbridge Internship positions are open to active duty and/or transitioning military members.  Compensation or pay for this role is made through the service member's current enlistment contract based on pay guidelines set by the Department of Defense (DoD)

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