Advisory Blue Co-op (2026)

SRA’s mission is to level up every day to protect our clients and their customers. This begins with our team members and their experience. SRA prides itself on maintaining a culture where team members have a shared sense of support and belonging, consistent with our It’s Personal company value. At SRA, we prioritize transparent career pathing, varied DEI programming and community groups, competitive benefits including mental health support, and an emphasis on a sustainable, healthy, and engaging work culture. SRA has twice been named a Best Place to Work by the Philadelphia Business Journal. 

These Essential Functions, Requirements, and Skills are guidelines. If you are a candidate who does not meet this exact job description but can demonstrate excellent organization, attention to detail, professionalism, flexibility, and self-direction in your professional background, we hope you apply. SRA values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages people of all backgrounds to apply.  

Summary/Objective  

The Cyber Defense Engineering Co-op position will be part of Security Risk Advisors’ Threat Management team, which is comprised of Advisory and Engineering services. Our style of consulting is dynamic, innovative, fast-paced, and highly rewarding for both our clients and our team. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with a wide variety of tool sets and across well-known client organizations

Essential Functions  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computing & Security Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent subject matter.  

• Apply Threat Management’s services across multiple client engagements involving Incident Response (IR), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Network Traffic Analysis, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Enterprise Security Architecture and Perimeter Management.  

• Collaborate with team members to assist with the design and implementation of security strategy and architecture across platforms for a variety of solutions.  

• Conduct requirements gathering, analysis, and assist in development of security strategy for clients.  

• Work effectively as part of a team to deliver projects.  

• Use tools such as FireEye, Fidelis, Splunk, Intel/McAfee, IBM, Symantec, Palo Alto, Resilient, Cybereason, Tanium, CarbonBlack, Bro and Snort.  

• Thoroughly document work in formal reports and present findings to management, suitable for customer consumption.  

• Remain current on information security and emerging threat trends, tools, and methodologies.  

• Protect organization’s value by keeping information confidential. 

Supervisory Responsibility  

N/A 

Work Environment  

Co-ops: This job operates in a professional office environment, and all co-ops are expected to work in the office every day. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.  

Physical Demands  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. This is a largely sedentary role. [Adjust as needed.]  

Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply and email [email protected] with any questions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable disabled individuals to perform the essential functions of this role.  

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work  

Advisory/Bus. Ops.: This is a full-time position and hours of work and days are Monday through Friday 8:30am to 5pm. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.  

Travel  

Willingness to travel.  

Required Education and Experience  

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computing & Security Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent subject matter. 

• Punctuality and timely attendance to external client and internal stakeholder needs. 

• Willingness to travel depending on assignments and specializations. 

Preferred Qualifications and Experience  

• Residence in Eastern time zone preferred. 

• Previous security experience is a plus. 

• Strong organization skills with attention to detail. 

• Some knowledge around incident investigation, forensics, and advanced threat controls. 

• Interest in taking the initiative for personal growth and development. 

• Flexibility to accommodate changing schedules of client and project needs.  

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a high level of professionalism. 

Other Duties  

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  

EEO Statement  

Security Risk Advisors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination or harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at SRA are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, disability, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or any similar category protected under federal, state, or local laws.    

Work with Experts: Robust internal training program, plus Company-paid external training. SRA recognizes the value of professional development for employees. Therefore, we encourage our employees to pursue continuing education and role-specific training.

Corps Training Program: Our SRA Corps training program is a six-week experience for new hires that begins with one week of orientation at our Philadelphia headquarters. Whether new hires are interns, co-ops or full-time consultants, SRA Corps members meet our founders, learn our values, and experience a day in the life of a cybersecurity consultant. Following orientation, Corps members return to their home office and participate in trainings such as Consulting 101, Enterprise Networks, Cloud Security, and more. Our leaders provide hands-on offensive, defensive, and frameworks bootcamps.

Mental Health Services: SRA has partnered with BetterHelp to provide SRA employees with free mental health support. BetterHelp connects individuals with licensed therapists for chat, video, and phone sessions.