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Information Security Engineer Internship (Summer 2026)

Principal Financial Group

$28 - $30
Sep 11, 2025
Des Moines, IA, US
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Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years. As an Information Security Engineer Intern, team alignment could be within one of the following areas: Cyber defense operations, GRC: Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Identity and access management, Insider Risk, Data protection.

Requirements

  • Technical curiosity
  • Ability to think critically and solution for technology-based problems
  • Interest in and/or experience with info security technologies/tooling/concepts
  • Technical experience with: Development Languages
  • Automation tooling
  • DevOps or Agile methodologies
  • NIST security standards and frameworks

Responsibilities

  • monitoring for and analyzing potential threats and vulnerabilities in Principal’s network and applications
  • work directly with the business to develop and enforce new security policies and standards
  • identify information security risks within our business solutions, creating insight into risk posture
  • build and support our enterprise authentication and access management solutions
  • correlate user activity of specific policy violations to identify Insider Threats and assess risk to improve prevention, detection, and response
  • work to ensure data is transmitted and stored securely across all systems and access methods

Other

  • You are currently pursuing or have completed an undergraduate degree program- in a preferred science, technology, engineering, or math-related field of study
  • You are involved in student organizations on your respective campus, within the community or have prior internship experience
  • You have exceptional communication and organizational skills and a strong work ethic
  • Leadership positions within student, work or community organizations
  • Past IT internship or work experience