Internship - Security Defence Centre

Technicalities

• Location: Amsterdam
• Duration: 3 – 6 months
• Salary: Internship compensation provided
• Work Hours: 36 hours/week
• Start Date: In consultation

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about cybersecurity and eager to gain hands-on experience in incident response and cyber threat management? Join our Security Defence Centre (SDC) as an intern and contribute to protecting ING from cyber threats. You’ll work alongside experienced incident responders, helping to detect, analyse, and respond to real-world security incidents.

The Team

The Security Defence Centre (SDC) is part of ING’s Global CISO organisation and is responsible for security incident management, threat response, and forensics. Our mission is to detect and mitigate cyber incidents and threats as quickly as possible to minimize business impact. As an intern, you’ll be immersed in daily security operations and will gain exposure to the tools, processes, and collaboration that drive our cyber defence operations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Assist in triaging and investigating security alerts and incidents.
• Help document incident response procedures and lessons learned.
• Contribute to automation and improvement of incident response workflows.
• Contribute to knowledge-sharing sessions.

How to Succeed
We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• Enrolled in a relevant degree program (e.g., Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Digital Forensics) at a Dutch institution.
• Familiar with basic networking and security concepts.
• Analytical, detail-oriented, and eager to learn.
• A team player with good communication skills.
• Able to handle sensitive information with the highest level of confidentiality and professionalism.

Rewards and Benefits

This is a great opportunity to train with highly skilled people who are experts in their field. You’ll do a lot and learn a lot – not only about your specialist area and the bank, but also about yourself and whether this type of environment is right for you.

• Gain hands-on experience in a global financial institution.
• Work in a collaborative and innovative cyber defence environment.

• Learn from experienced professionals in incident response, cyber threat hunters and threat analysts.
• Build a professional network within ING and the broader cybersecurity community.
• Receive mentorship and guidance to support your development.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Internship allowance of 700 EUR based on a 36 hours work week

• Your own work laptop

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

During the duration of your internship at ING, it is mandatory to be enrolled at a Dutch university (or EU-university for EUpassport holders).

Questions?
Contact the recruiter attached to the advertisement. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the ‘Apply’ button.

About Our Internships

Every year, more than 350 students join our internship program. While there are no guarantees about your future, many of our former interns move into a permanent role or onto our International Talent Programme (traineeship).

Whatever happens, an internship at ING is the ideal opportunity to meet a wide variety of people, to build up your own network, and to learn about many different aspects of banking – put simply, it’s a great start to your career.