A company in Sector 62, Noida, is hiring an Associate Firewall Administrator for a paid, on-site internship with a stipend of up to ₹15,500 per month. No prior professional experience is required. This is an entry point into network security specifically, not a general IT internship that touches on it occasionally. The intern works alongside the company's own security team, handling real infrastructure rather than a sandboxed training environment set up just for interns. Access is scoped and supervised, but the systems themselves are the production network, not a copy built solely for training.
A bachelor's degree is expected, most often in electronics, computer science, or a similarly technical field. Given the entry-level nature of the internship, the company is looking more for genuine understanding of networking fundamentals than for a long list of prior roles, since there aren't any yet. Someone who's set up a home lab or worked through networking coursework with actual hands-on labs tends to walk in with a real head start over someone who's only studied the material for exams. Reading about how a firewall works and actually configuring one to pass or block specific traffic are genuinely different skills.
The internship is built around four core skills:
- Firewall configuration, setting and adjusting rules that control what traffic gets through and what doesn't
- Network security more broadly, understanding how the pieces around a firewall fit together to actually protect something
- VPN, both setting up secure remote access and troubleshooting it when a connection won't hold
- Troubleshooting, tracing a connectivity complaint back to whichever layer is actually causing it
These overlap constantly in practice. A user who can't reach an internal application might be dealing with a firewall rule blocking the wrong port, a VPN session that dropped silently, or something else entirely, and sorting out which one it is is most of the actual job.
Day-to-day, the intern helps configure and maintain firewall rules and related network hardware, works through connectivity issues reported by other teams or flagged during monitoring, and keeps an eye on network performance and security logs for anything unusual. Capacity planning is part of the role too, tracking how traffic and rule sets are growing over time so the infrastructure doesn't quietly fall behind actual demand. A fair amount of the learning here happens by watching a senior administrator work through a real incident, then trying the same kind of investigation solo on something lower-stakes. Documentation matters as well; every rule change gets logged with a reason attached, so nobody six months later has to guess why a particular port got opened. That habit tends to be the single most useful thing an intern carries into any future networking or security role.
None of the following are expected upon arrival, but each will help. Hands-on exposure to a specific firewall platform, whether that's Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Cisco ASA, translates directly since the fundamentals carry across vendors even when the interface doesn't. A foundational security certification, something like Security+ or an entry-level vendor cert, signals genuine interest beyond coursework. Basic scripting ability to automate repetitive checks is a plus, and any familiarity with how a SIEM tool aggregates and flags security events provides a useful head start on the monitoring side of the role. Prior exposure to intrusion detection or prevention systems is worth mentioning as well, since firewall work rarely occurs in isolation from the rest of the security stack.
The internship comes with real benefits attached:
- A monthly stipend
- Mentorship from senior team members
- A certificate of completion at the end of the term
- Strong potential for a full-time offer for interns who perform well
- On-site cafeteria access
- Cab or commute support for getting to and from the Sector 62 office
Cafeteria access and commute support tend to matter more here than at a typical office internship, since the security team occasionally works past standard hours around a change window or an active incident.
Sector 62 is one of the denser IT corridors in Noida, and Naukri Mitra continues to see a steady stream of firewall administrator jobs in Noida listed out of companies based in this exact stretch. The stipend here aligns with what's typical for a firewall administrator internship in Noida for students, and the role is structured with a genuine focus on converting strong interns rather than treating the internship as disposable seasonal labor. Given how commutable Sector 62 is from most parts of the NCR, cab support turns out to matter more for evening shifts than for the standard workday.
The security team running this program keeps a fairly disciplined rhythm, since firewall changes get reviewed carefully before they go live, given how much damage a bad rule can cause across the network. New interns typically shadow a senior administrator for the first few weeks, watching how changes get planned and rolled back if something goes wrong, before making smaller changes themselves under supervision. Things can get intense during an actual security incident, and the team treats that as a real part of the learning rather than something to shield interns from entirely, within reason. By the latter part of the internship, most interns are trusted to make routine rule changes with a review step rather than constant direct oversight, which is the clearest sign of real progress over the course of the term.
To apply, send a resume along with a short note on any coursework, home lab projects, or certifications related to networking or security. The process includes a technical conversation covering networking fundamentals and basic firewall concepts, followed by a discussion with the security team lead about internship timing and what the first few weeks would look like. Most candidates hear back within a week or two of the final conversation, and the team lead tends to give specific feedback on the technical conversation regardless of the outcome, since that's often more useful to a student than a plain rejection.
