IT Cybersecurity Intern

About Golden Spread

Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc. (GSEC) is a not-for-profit generation and transmission cooperative organized in 1984 to provide low-cost, reliable electric power and energy to its 16 Member cooperatives.  

Golden Spread’s 16 Member systems provide service to approximately 320,000 electric meters serving member-consumers located in the Panhandle, South Plains and Edwards Plateau regions of Texas, an area covering 24% of Texas land mass, and in the Oklahoma Panhandle, Southwest Kansas and Southern Colorado.

Golden Spread owns two natural gas fueled generation power plants and a wind turbine ranch, all within the Texas panhandle. With approximately 1,745 megawatts of owned generation, Golden Spread prides itself on reliably and efficiently meeting Members’ power supply needs with a flexible and diverse generation fleet that can maximize the benefits of participation in both the Southwest Power Pool and Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

Overview of Information Technology (IT) Department

The IT department is responsible for ensuring the technology tools and resources utilized throughout the Cooperative are operational and secure. The department’s goal is to support and enable Golden Spread employees to be successful in their use of technology by boosting efficiency, establishing governance for the proper use of technology, and providing the systems needed to perform their job responsibilities. Each member of the IT department fulfills an important role in the Cooperative. The primary responsibilities of these members include aspects of system and network administration, technical support, application development, compliance, training, and cyber security. 

Essential Job Functions

• Assist monitoring and triaging network and user activity.
• Evaluate system logs.
• Research, report and document security events & incidents.
• Help clients identify and report events/incidents to the Security Operations Center.
• Analyze user submissions.
• Research and present findings on current cyber news and processes as requested by manager.
• Identify and complete one major project that compliments education or cyber knowledge during internship.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work location and conditions – Office, Lubbock, TX

FLSA Status  

• Non-Exempt

Education, Knowledge, and Experience Required

• Must be a college or university student, preferred junior or senior, pursing a degree in information technology, computer science, computer information systems or related field of study.

• Must have a minimum GPA of 3.2.