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Position Title: SAP iXp Intern - SAP Analytics Cloud, Security Engineering
Location: Vancouver, BC
Anticipated Start Date: September 2026
Contract Duration: 8 months
Work Hours: Full-time; 40 hours per week
As a security intern on the SAP Analytics Cloud team, you will have the opportunity to:
- Work closely with the Cloud Architecture teams to ensure adherence to the defined security, risk and governance needs
- Analyze security test results with applicability to target environments
- Ability to understand the risks and security issues associated with infrastructure (such as servers, networks and storage) and able to clearly articulate them to business users and technical personnel.
- Conduct and/or manage vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and compliance audits of IT operations, application systems and infrastructure
- Contribute to hands-on coding, design, test and architecture to deliver best solutions to our customers
- Collaborate in a team environment that extends to colleagues in remote locations and from various lines of businesses within the company.
- Assess new technology, tool and infrastructure to keep up with the rapid pace of change.
- Embrace lean and agile software development principles
What You’ll Bring
A curious and agile mindset, with a passion for learning and the resilience to adapt in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Strong problem-solving and creative thinking skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and communicate ideas clearly and effectively. Emotional intelligence and cultural awareness that support inclusive teamwork and thoughtful stakeholder engagement. A growing foundation in business acumen and emerging technologies — especially artificial intelligence — paired with a results-oriented approach and the courage to take initiative.
Education: Computer Science or Engineering.
Eligibility: Must be currently enrolled, or recently graduated (start date must be within 6 months of graduation date) from a coding academy/bootcamp, apprenticeship, associate, bachelor’s, master’s or JD/PhD program.
- Ability to work well in a team as well as independently and have a positive self-motivated can-do attitude
- Solid programming skills in JavaScript/Java/python (or equivalent)
- Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms and principles of OO design
- Understanding of databases and web application servers
- Knowledge in software security (authentication mechanisms, cryptography, security breaches…)
- Basic IT security knowledge (system and network security, firewalls, IPS, Proxies)
- Previous internship experience would be an asset
- Experience with products for networking analyses and scanning (e.g. Nmap, Wireshark Zap, BurpSuite, ….) is a plus
- Prior experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is preferred but not mandatory
Where You Belong
The SAP Analytics Cloud team is looking for energetic and innovative individuals to help with our next generation cloud-based Analytics platform on the topic of security. Are you passionate about security and understand the importance of end-to-end security, data protection and compliance of SAPs technology development and operations? Do you thrive in a team with strong engineers to learn from and where all members of the engineering team, including management are close to the code and making technical contributions? If so, then this is the right job for you! Help us shape the future.
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- Gain Visibility: Build relationships with leaders and peers across teams and functions. Showcase your ideas, skills, and creativity in a global, fast-paced environment. Open doors for future career opportunities within SAP and beyond.
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Requisition ID: 458576 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid