Ethical Hacking Intern

Winchbench is a managed services provider with 1,200 employees, supporting more than 1,500 client organisations across India. Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

The program

Winchbench is hiring an Ethical Hacking Intern for Jan 2027. Winchbench 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 Bengaluru, but nobody is required to come in. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Responsibilities

• Monitor dependency alerts from Dependabot and Snyk
• Update security policies and runbooks in Confluence
• Write clear findings with severity, impact and steps to fix
• Triage phishing emails reported by staff and update block lists
• Review alerts in our SIEM (Wazuh or Splunk) and escalate anything suspicious
• 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

What we're looking for

• Can start immediately or within two weeks
• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection
• Good understanding of networking basics: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, ports and firewalls
• Basic knowledge of common web attacks such as XSS, SQL injection and CSRF
• Some scripting in Python or Bash

Preferred qualifications

• CTF participation or published writeups
• Experience with Wireshark, Nmap or Burp Suite
• Knowledge of cloud security in AWS or Azure

What you'll learn

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

Program dates: Jan 2027, 2 months.

Compensation: ₹27,000-₹33,000/month

Perks

• Internet allowance
• Job offer on successful completion
• Laptop provided for the internship
• Certificate
• 5 days a week
• Mentorship from senior team members

Duration: 2 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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