Website Centene
You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members as an Intern at Centene. During this 12-week program, you’ll learn more about Centene and how we’re transforming the health of the community, one person at a time.
- Learn various job functions within the Managed Care industry and explore various career opportunities
- Apply academic knowledge and learn new skills by contributing to various projects
- Research various legal, regulatory, and other topics within functional area and industry
- Attend training and development presentations to enhance professional competencies
Position Purpose:
The internship allows for an opportunity to work with the network defense team to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements. You will analyze, streamline, and automate operational tasks and processes to protect the company’s network infrastructure and components against adversaries as well as help build network security systems and solutions. You will help implement and maintain technologies to measure conformance against network security standards.
Technical Skills:
- Experience with network security technologies (ex., Firewalls, proxy, and DNS environments)
- Knowledge of network security tools like Wireshark, Snort, Nagios, etc.
Soft Skills:
- Seeks to acquire knowledge in the area of specialty
- Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Ability to work independently
- Demonstrated analytical skills
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
- Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision-making skills
Experience/Experience:
High school diploma or equivalent. Must be enrolled in an undergraduate program at an accredited university or college, preferably in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a field related to the hiring department through the internship period.
Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.
