May 2027 - Cyber as a Service - Summer Intern - Vancouver

At PwC Canada, we’re more than a professional services firm—we’re a community of solvers tackling the world’s most important problems. As an Intern in our market leading Consulting practice, you’ll be part of a diverse, inclusive team that values your perspective and empowers you to make a real impact. You’ll gain hands-on experience with real client work, explore how businesses operate, and learn how trust is built through compliance and strategic planning. 

This Summer Internship offers a launchpad like no other. You’ll be supported by experienced professionals and exposed to our innovative digital Consulting tools. From May through August 2027, you’ll dive into real client work, learning how businesses operate and how trust is built through consulting services. You’ll be guided through the consulting process by experienced professionals and gain exposure to our market-leading digital tools. You’ll benefit from a rich internship experience that includes meetings with firm leadership, interactive lunch and learns, skill-building workshops, client visits, and opportunities to participate in volunteer and social events. Grow here, go further. 

Experiences and Skills You’ll Use to Solve: 

A career within Cybersecurity and Privacy and Financial Crime services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients implement an effective cybersecurity programme and help run their cybersecurity operations that protects against threats, propels transformation, and drives growth.  

As companies pivot toward a digital business model, exponentially more data is generated and shared among organisations, partners and customers. We play an integral role in helping our clients ensure they are protected by developing transformation strategies focused on security, efficiently integrate and manage new or existing technology systems to deliver continuous operational improvements and increase their cybersecurity investment, and detect, respond, and remediate threats. 
 

As an intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. 

Responsibilities may include:  

• Learn cybersecurity concepts such as detection, response and attack patterns 

• Work in an operational environment and learn first-hand on how cybersecurity operations work in detecting and preventing cyber threats 

• Assist with security monitoring, detection, response and client care 

• Ensure cyber security incidents are investigated identified, assessed, reported, communicated to the client, and mitigated 

• Ensure compliance to client agreements, adherence to process and process improvements to achieve operational objectives 

• Revise and develop processes to strengthen the current Security Operations Framework 

• Perform threat management, threat modeling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring 

• Coordination with stakeholders, build and maintain positive working relationships with them 

• Enable cyber operations reporting to support anomaly detection, SLA monitoring or effort / estimate modelling 

With connectivity being a key enabler of our strategy, our objective is to become the most connected firm - connected to our clients, our communities and to each other. PwC follows an Activity Based Work model, where our PwC professionals engage in a diverse range of activities from our offices, from client sites, or our homes. 

What you bring to this role: 

• Preference will be given to students entering their third year of study

• Enrolled in post-secondary education in Technology 

• Ability to code in one or several languages: Java, C, C++ or Python 

• An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work 

• A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate new ideas 

• Highly detail oriented with excellent organizational and analytical skills; an ability to think broadly and to ask questions about data, facts and other information to deliver quality to our clients 

• Share and collaborate effectively with others, building relationships which are genuine and rooted in trust 

• Ability to easily adapt and prioritize, demonstrating project management skills to handle changing priorities  

• Alignment with PwC Values: Acting with Integrity, Working Together, Care, Reimagine the Possible and Make a Difference 

• Comfortable travelling to cities across Canada, when required 

• Legally entitled to work for PwC in Canada for the intended duration of the offer/contract. 

• We'd love it even more if you’re bilingual in English and French, however this isn't a requirement. 
   

Note: We only allow you to submit one application; however, you are able to select a second and third office preference.