Security Analyst Internship

Location: Des Moines, IA, us Department: Internships Employment Type: {'id': 'intern', 'label': 'Intern'}

Company Description

Why choose an internship with Wellmark? We strive to offer meaningful work that assists in your professional development and provides value to the team. You will gain valuable experience within the health insurance industry and put the skills and knowledge you’ve acquired in school to practice this summer during our 2027 Summer Internship Program. You will have the opportunity to learn from subject matter experts and leaders within the industry, network with fellow internship program participants, and gain practical, hands-on work experience.

If you’re eager to learn, collaborate with others, demonstrate your potential, develop customer-focused solutions, and grow into an exciting career, we hope you’ll consider an internship with us!

Job Description

What’s Information Security Cloud Engineering in our Technology Division? Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work. In this role you will gain and experience on Consumer Cloud technologies.

What projects might I support? Although subject to change, examples of projects you will be contributing to include:

Develop cloud migration security controls, ensuring the deployment of new applications to the cloud follows Wellmark’s security standards.

Script automated controls to monitor cloud security,

Build reporting tools, obtaining coding data and analyzing to understand and craft recommendations

Support the creation and document flow for technology identity access management team

Gather requirements by asking thoughtful questions, clarifying needs, and maintaining strong attention to detail.

Analyze current usage reports and develop data management scripts and structures that bring information together to support reporting and decision-making.

Ready to bring your strengths to Wellmark? Here’s what’s next! Review the qualifications below. If the position is a match with your passion and interests, submit your application today!

This internship will start in May of 2027, working a hybrid schedule from our headquarters in Des Moines.

Qualifications

Current junior, senior or Master’s student pursing a Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Data Analytics, MIS, or related field

Knowledge of software development technologies (NodeJS, Angular, .NET, MongoDB, SQL).

General understanding of the domains of programming/scripting, computer science, and management information systems.

Strong analytical problem-solving skills. Accuracy and high attention to detail and self-starter.

Ability to troubleshoot and develop creative technical solutions.

Demonstrated computer skills with Microsoft Office products.

Excellent writing and communication skills.

Preferred

Prior work experience in an office environment or internship

Knowledge of Microsoft Entra/Azure

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

The policy of Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact us at [email protected]

Please inform us if you meet the definition of a "Covered DoD official".

At this time, Wellmark is not considering applicants for this position that require any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please refer to the following resources:Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

Wellmark supports and expects the responsible use of AI for our workforce! We welcome the responsible use of these tools by job seekers as well and are interested in learning from you; you will have an opportunity in the application process to share which tools you used and how you applied them.