Cyber Security Placement Student

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 2,000 people. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

The program:

JNG Apps is hiring a Cyber Security Placement Student for Dec 2026. This is a blue team internship first. Most days involve reviewing alerts, checking configurations and writing up findings. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the Netherlands. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

What you'll do:

• Run authenticated vulnerability scans with Nessus or OpenVAS on approved assets
• Help review access lists and remove accounts that are no longer needed
• Monitor dependency alerts from Dependabot and Snyk
• Test our own web apps for OWASP Top 10 issues using Burp Suite, within the agreed scope
• Prepare short security awareness posts and quizzes for staff

Who you are:

• Based in the Netherlands for the duration of the internship
• Available for the full internship period
• Some scripting in Python or Bash
• Strong sense of ethics. You will see sensitive data and must stay strictly within scope
• Comfortable on the Linux command line
• Basic knowledge of common web attacks such as XSS, SQL injection and CSRF
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security or a related field, graduating in 2027

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with ISO 27001 or NIST frameworks
• Basic understanding of Active Directory

What you'll learn:

• Writing findings that engineers can fix without a long back-and-forth
• Mentoring from a security engineer with weekly check-ins
• You will work on real security alerts and vulnerability findings, not lab exercises
• How audit evidence, policies and technical controls fit together

Program dates: Dec 2026, 6 months.

Intern pay: €1,850 - €2,150/month

What we offer:

• Letter of recommendation
• Online learning budget
• Company laptop
• Internet allowance

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at JNG Apps.