
Working Student - Cybersecurity Services (m/w/d)
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Job description
IBM posted this role. Below, we break down what it means for a working student in Magdeburg: your weekly hours, take-home pay and visa limits. You can also open ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt to tailor your CV, check your fit, draft a cover letter or prep for the interview.
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Description provided by IBM
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
Your Role And Responsibilities
As a Security Consultant specializing in Application Security, you will help clients understand and address application security issues, risks, and vulnerabilities. You will provide consulting services to analyze and resolve security incidents and support clients in achieving a superior security posture.
Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include
- Assist with Security Assessments: Participate in interviews, workshops, and assessments to identify application security issues and vulnerabilities.
- Learn about Security Principles: Explore and apply security principles and knowledge of Application Security technologies, Threat models, and DevSecOps concepts to support client projects.
- Support Incident Response: Engage with clients to analyze and resolve security incidents and develop incident response plans.
- Contribute to Security Strategy: Assist in defining business drivers and developing associated App & DevSecOps security strategy, programs, and remediation recommendations.
- Observe Best Practices: Learn about and apply best practices in application security to support client projects and improve overall security posture.
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Exposure to Application Security: Familiarity with application security concepts, technologies, and best practices through coursework, projects, or personal interest.
- Basic Understanding of Threat Models: Knowledge of threat modeling principles and concepts, including common threats and vulnerabilities in application security.
- Interest in DevSecOps Concepts: Awareness of DevSecOps practices and tools, including secure coding, testing, and deployment methodologies.
- Familiarity with Security Assessments: Understanding of security assessment techniques, including interviews, workshops, and vulnerability scanning.
- Curiosity about Incident Response: Basic knowledge of incident response principles, including analysis, containment, and remediation of security incidents.
- Familiarity with Secure Coding: Exposure to secure coding practices and tools, including secure coding methodologies and secure code review.
- Knowledge of Security Frameworks: Basic understanding of security frameworks and standards, including industry-recognized security frameworks and regulations.
- Awareness of Cloud Security: Interest in cloud security concepts, technologies, and best practices, including cloud security architecture and cloud security controls.
Working student essentials
What this Tech working student role in Magdeburg means for you: the weekly-hours rules, the social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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