Security Engineering Intern

Headquartered in Cork since 1993, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

About the role

Our Cloud Security team runs vulnerability scans, reviews cloud settings and handles phishing reports. The intern helps with all of it. You can work from home anywhere in Ireland. We have no office requirement. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Day to day

• Test our own web apps for OWASP Top 10 issues using Burp Suite, within the agreed scope
• Monitor dependency alerts from Dependabot and Snyk
• Prepare short security awareness posts and quizzes for staff
• Track open vulnerabilities in Jira and follow up with owners on fixes
• Write clear findings with severity, impact and steps to fix
• Research new CVEs that affect our stack and summarise them for the team

What we're looking for

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Ireland
• Based in Ireland for the duration of the internship
• Basic knowledge of common web attacks such as XSS, SQL injection and CSRF
• Willing to complete a basic background check before access is granted
• 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

Preferred

• Familiarity with ISO 27001 or NIST frameworks
• CTF participation or published writeups

What you'll learn

• Mentoring from a security engineer with weekly check-ins
• You will work on real security alerts and vulnerability findings, not lab exercises

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: €31,000 - €34,000 per annum

What we offer

• Reference on completion
• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Graduate scheme fast-track interview
• Home working allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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