Security Operations & Systems Internship
Work on live security tools: SIEM alerts, vulnerability scans, EDR tuning and incident response exercises, with senior engineers reviewing your work.
We usually respond within a week
About the internship
You'll join our Security & IT Infrastructure team to protect our environment, working on live tools and infrastructure across IT operations, threat detection and Red/Blue team exercises. You'll tune our detection rules, clean up access and asset data, and write documentation the team keeps using after you leave.
In this role, you will:
Monitor SIEM alerts, triage incidents with the team, run vulnerability scans and manage internal phishing simulation campaigns
Audit and update our asset inventory, and run IAM access reviews to enforce least privilege
Tune EDR rules to cut false positives, and support OSINT footprinting and tabletop incident response exercises
Turn recurring helpdesk issues into self-service knowledge base articles, and document system configurations, network baseline changes and security playbooks
What you'll learn
You'll gain hands-on experience across IT operations, threat detection and offensive and defensive testing, working with senior engineers in weekly sessions. Your work gets reviewed as each deliverable is produced, so you get concrete feedback throughout.
Who we're looking for
You will thrive here if you:
Are following a bachelor's or master's program, in cybersecurity, computer science, IT, network engineering or a related field
Are comfortable with Linux and Windows, command-line interfaces and networking fundamentals, and enjoy troubleshooting
Speak and write fluent English, including clear technical documentation
Have exposure to or a strong interest in security tools and concepts such as SIEM, EDR, CVSS scoring or vulnerability management platforms
- Department
- IT Operations
- Role
- Security & IT Infrastructure
- Location
- Leeuwarden
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Internship
- Working hours
- 20 hours per week
- Starting date
- February 01, 2027
Colleagues
Internship benefits
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Monthly stipend
€750 per month at 40 hours a week, pro-rated for fewer hours.
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Flexible hours
You largely choose which hours and days you work, in consultation with your team.
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Hybrid from day one
One to two days a week at our Leeuwarden hub, the rest is up to you.
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Room for a thesis
Writing a thesis alongside your internship is fine, on your own time.
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An international team
English is our working language, and many of your colleagues are international too.
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A real path forward
Some of our interns stay on. Ben Homola started as an intern in our Leeuwarden data team and is now a Data Operations Coordinator.
Inside Datamaran
Four offices, one loop: pick up a signal, work out what it means, decide what to do with it.
Leeuwarden
About Datamaran
Datamaran is the AI-powered governance platform for enterprise.
Regulations change. Stakeholders shift. Markets move. Large organizations are expected to hold a clear, defensible position on all of it, and most still get there through slow manual work on fragmented signals.
We turn regulatory, stakeholder and market signals into intelligence that leadership teams can act on, built on 12+ years of expertise in non-financial risk. Risk, legal, compliance, sustainability and corporate affairs teams at Bridgestone, Dell, Cisco, Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo use Datamaran to decide what matters, and to stand behind that decision afterwards.
We are 104 people across the UK, US, Spain and the Netherlands.
Know what's coming. Act on it.