Cyber Range Development Intern

Job overview

The Cyber Range Development Intern role is fully onsite in Pittsburgh, PA, and compensation is not specified. The intern supports the Cyber Mission Readiness Directorate within CERT, which develops hands-on training, exercises, and assessments to improve cyber mission readiness. The role builds and maintains virtual lab environments used for cybersecurity training and exercises. It helps migrate existing lab content to an open-source virtualization platform and develops and tests realistic exercise scenarios with cybersecurity subject matter experts.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain virtual machine templates and lab network topologies
• automate VM images and configurations using tools such as Packer, cloud-init, and Ansible
• migrate and validate existing lab content on new virtualization infrastructure
• develop and test exercise scenarios with subject matter experts
• document lab environments and demonstrate them to the team.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

cyber range development intern

cybersecurity training

virtual machines

virtualization

network topologies

proxmox ve

vmware

packer

terraform

ansible

pittsburgh pa

carnegie mellon university

part-time

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Benefits-eligible employees may receive medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• retirement savings with employer contributions
• tuition benefits
• paid time off and holidays
• life and accidental death and disability insurance
• transit pass
• family concierge
• fitness center access.

Why this role

Part-time internship beginning Fall 2026, with the option to continue through Spring 2027; work includes virtualization, software-defined networking, and infrastructure as code.

About the employer

Carnegie Mellon University is hiring for this role. Industry: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools. Sector: 61.