Cyber Security Placement Student

Products include endpoint protection, email security and a cloud posture management platform. We operate security operations centres on three continents, so alerts are triaged by analysts on day shift wherever they arrive. We started in 1992 and have grown to about 3,500 people.

About the internship:

Nowak Cyber is hiring a Cyber Security Placement Student for Jan 2027. We are preparing for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audits, and the intern will help collect evidence and update policies. We are headquartered in Gilbert and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Remote internship with a team based in Gilbert. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

Responsibilities:

• Triage phishing emails reported by staff and update block lists
• Help review access lists and remove accounts that are no longer needed
• Update security policies and runbooks in Confluence
• Check AWS and Google Workspace settings against CIS benchmarks
• Write clear findings with severity, impact and steps to fix

What we're looking for:

• Eligible to work in Estonia
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028
• Comfortable on the Linux command line
• Strong sense of ethics. You will see sensitive data and must stay strictly within scope
• Hands-on practice through TryHackMe, Hack The Box or college labs
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week for 6 months
• Some scripting in Python or Bash

Nice to have:

• CTF participation or published writeups
• Experience with Wireshark, Nmap or Burp Suite

What you get out of it:

• Mentoring from a security engineer with weekly check-ins
• Writing findings that engineers can fix without a long back-and-forth

Program dates: Jan 2027, 6 months.

Intern pay: $1,900 - $2,450 monthly

Benefits for interns:

• Letter of recommendation
• Mentorship
• Company laptop
• Internet allowance
• Certificate of completion
• Possibility of a full-time offer

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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