Cybersecurity Intern

Building a Safer Cyberspace: At Horangi, we’re passionate about building a safer cyber space and creating software that solves challenging cyber security problems. Horangi focuses on building partnerships with our customers, developing an understanding of their business goals and building a security strategy that helps achieve their objectives. Horangi’s personnel have an extensive engineering experience and strong background in penetration testing, incident response and strategic consulting including both large multinational networks and small organizations with focused missions. We enjoy solving tough security problems and we are eager to find new challenges and build new relationships.The RoleThe cybersecurity Intern will work in Horangi’s Cyber Operations (Offensive) team, and will be mentored by experienced consultants to deliver enhancements to real-world projects. Interns in the Cyber Operations (Offensive) team would generally be expected to contribute to the team through research and development work, primarily focused on enabling security testing automation, tool development and contribution to the internal knowledge base and any other relevant activities that may be required of them by the organisation.Interns may also be selected to participate in our internal training programme for junior consultants (depending on factors such as intern progress and length of tenure with Horangi). Select interns may also be tasked with performing hands-on penetration testing or vulnerability assessment activities under real-life consultancy scenarios.

Qualifications

• Relevant skill sets in programming (such as Python, Ruby or Java) and/or cybersecurity to meet the technical demands of the role
• Students enrolled in cybersecurity or computer science programmes are preferred
• Demonstrable passion for cybersecurity
• Prior experience and participation in Capture-the-Flag (CTF) challenges is a bonus
• Having industry certifications such as CEH, eJPT, KLCP or OSCP is a bonus

Responsibilties

• Develop automation scripts/tools
• Create detailed documentation on developed scripts/tools
• Contribute to the internal knowledge base
• Perform penetration tests and vulnerability assessments