2022 Summer Student – Cyber Security Student (#974)

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is bringing together the finest minds to form a diverse, vibrant and dynamic workforce culture energized by the innovative capacity of students, new graduates and mid-career professionals, underpinned by senior world renowned experts. We hire numerous students each semester from colleges and universities to support our research and perform other assignments. If you are looking for interesting and challenging work this summer then keep reading, and if you meet the requirements of this role, apply today.

Department: Applied Physics

Number of Positions: 1

Duration: 4 – 16 months (beginning in May – length will depend on successful candidate)

Discipline: University program in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or Computer Science

Year of study: 3rd year, 4th year or above

Location: Fredericton, NB

Note

All students applying for student positions at CNL must be returning to full-time studies upon completion of their work term. Exceptions will be made for students who require a work term in order to graduate.

Students must submit a resume, cover letter and copy of an up-to-date transcript by the posting close date of March 15, 2022 @ 11:59pm to ensure consideration for student employment.

INTRO

Do you want to work on the cutting edge of cyber security research for the protection of Canada’s critical infrastructure? Then, come join CNL’s National Innovation Centre for Cyber Security (NICCS) in Fredericton, NB.

The NICCS is situated in the cyber security business park cluster set up by Cyber NB (part of Opportunities New Brunswick) on Fredericton’s Knowledge Park Drive and will be moving to the new Cyber Centre in the spring of 2022. At the heart of the NICCS is a state of the art cyber secure test range containing representative hardware and software used in nuclear power plants and other critical infrastructure that will be used to evaluate and test tools, techniques and best practices for securing critical infrastructure and industrial control systems taking into account the key characteristics that differentiate critical infrastructure and industrial control systems from typical IT and other commercial networks. Results from this research will be used to provide guidance to both regulators and industry on effectively meeting newly revised and released cyber security standards.

Some Of The Work Planned Within The Next Year Of The NICCS Includes

CNL is looking for an enthusiastic, bright, and motived engineering or computer science student to join the NICCS for a 4 to 16-month internship beginning in May of 2022. The exact assignment will be dependent upon the successful candidate’s skill set and interests and the needs of CNL.

• Front-end and back-end database development
• Developing and conducting penetration tests
• Operating, configuring, and maintaining the lab’s Security Operations Centre (SOC)
• Developing and conducting incident response exercises
• Maintaining hardware and software in the Cyber Range
• Software development

This is an exciting opportunity for an engineering or computer science student with an interest in networking and cyber security and who is starting out in their career to gain hands-on experience with cyber security in an industrial control system test facility

Responsibilities

• Undertaking research and documenting the results either formally or informally
• Evaluating cyber security products
• Installation, maintenance, and upgrade activities on the cyber secure test bed
• Development of cyber security training curriculum
• Development of test scripts
• Development of test plans
• Testing
• Software development
• Database development
• Configuration management

Requirements

• Currently enrolled at a University of good standing in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Demonstrated ability to carry out research or independent study
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong programming ability
• Previous experience with cyber security, particularly in a research setting is an asset
• Experience with industrial control systems including PLCs and SCADA systems is an asset
• Experience with C and C++ programming, particularly in a real-time system environment is an asset
• Experience with the .NET framework is an asset
• Experience with MATLAB and SIMULINK is an asset
• Experience with machine learning techniques, including neural networks is an asset.