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 Mar 2027. JNG Apps is looking for a cyber security intern to support our small security team with monitoring, testing and documentation. Remote position. Most of the team is in Amsterdam, but nobody is required to come in. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Your projects

• Research new CVEs that affect our stack and summarise them for the team.
• Write clear findings with severity, impact and steps to fix.
• Update security policies and runbooks in Confluence.
• Track open vulnerabilities in Jira and follow up with owners on fixes.
• Review alerts in our SIEM (Wazuh or Splunk) and escalate anything suspicious.
• Help review access lists and remove accounts that are no longer needed.
• Triage phishing emails reported by staff and update block lists.

Basic qualifications

• Eligible to work in the Netherlands.
• Based in the Netherlands for the duration of the internship.
• Good understanding of networking basics: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, ports and firewalls.
• Own laptop that can run a virtual machine, and a stable internet connection.
• Comfortable on the Linux command line.

Preferred qualifications

• CompTIA Security+, CEH, eJPT or a similar certification.

What you get out of it

• How audit evidence, policies and technical controls fit together.
• Mentoring from a security engineer with weekly check-ins.
• Certificate and recommendation letter on completion.

Program dates: Mar 2027, 6 months.

Compensation: €1,900-€2,350/month

Benefits for interns

• Letter of recommendation.
• Internet allowance.
• Mentorship.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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