Job Specifications
Explore the world of Barclays as a Summer Intern
Spend 10 weeks diving into real projects, gaining hands-on experience, and shaping your future. You'll receive full support, take on meaningful responsibilities, and build lasting connections--all while discovering what makes our culture unique.
If you're in your penultimate year and ready to grow, learn, and make an impact, this is your opportunity to belong and thrive.
Why the Cyber & Security Internship programme?
The Chief Security Office is all about keeping the bank, its clients, customers and colleagues safe. We're here to protect the organisation from both external and internal threats, and every day presents new challenges. This is an exciting place to be: hackers constantly attempt to find new ways to threaten our security, and we never rest in learning new ways to prevent them. And those threats don't just come from viruses and fraudsters. Our work also touches on issues such as terrorism, world events, and the impact of economic turbulence. As the world around us changes, we have to be prepared and ready to respond. All of which will make your work with us endlessly interesting and deeply significant.
The Cyber & Security teams within our Chief Security Office range from Cyber & Physical Security to Resilience, Crisis Management, Security Operations and Intelligence and more. Everyone is focused on defending the bank. That might mean playing a proactive role, such as researching potential threats from hackers. Or it might mean a reactive role, such as responding to incidents that might challenge our security. Whatever your focus, you'll partner with teams across the bank to minimise disruption and make sure that any affected services can recover quickly. We're one of the strongest banks for Cyber Security, and this is your opportunity to learn from the best.
To be considered for this opportunity, you must be in your penultimate or final year of university.
You'll also bring a keen interest -- or hands-on experience -- in Cybersecurity or a technology-related field. Whether you're passionate about protecting systems or exploring the latest in tech innovation, you're excited to be part of a space where digital resilience meets cutting-edge thinking.
The location for this role is indicated in the job title, and you will be based at that location. If you are successful in receiving a return offer to our graduate programme, your location will be the same as it was during your internship.
Applicants for this position will need the legal right to work in the UK on a full time basis from June 2026 to August 2026. This is not a role which we can offer sponsorship for at this time.
If you secure a place on our Internship Programme, and this subsequently leads to you receiving an offer for our Graduate Programme, the 2027 Graduate Programme is not one which we can offer sponsorship for at this time. Accordingly, to participate in the Graduate Programme, you would require having the legal right to work full time for the duration of that Programme (i.e. August 2027 to August 2029).
Working In Knutsford
Set in 64 acres of gardens and centred around the historic Radbroke Hall, our Knutsford campus blends heritage with innovation. We're redeveloping the site into a world-class, sustainable workspace that fosters collaboration and wellbeing.
Colleagues enjoy a vibrant community with clubs and activities ranging from yoga and running to beekeeping and boardgames. We host family-friendly events--including our own Glastonbury-style festival--and are proud to support our local community.
With free shuttle buses from nearby transport hubs and onsite parking, getting here is easy too.
It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.
Purpose of the role
To support the day-to-day operations of the Chief Security Office, providing insights and expertise that help support the vision and mission of the business area.
Accountabilities
Collaboration with experts across teams to help reduce risk, protect our customer and clients, and provide a world class service for our business.
Identification of opportunities for us to improve and maximise agility and develop an agile and intelligence led approach to security delivery.
Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business projects and initiatives.
Identification of opportunities for us to improve, and clearly articulating to drive positive change across the function.
Analyst Expectations
To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
Requires in-depth technical knowledge and ex
About the Company
Barclays is a British universal bank. Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities.
With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately ...
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