What we achieve together

In your role as Working Student IT Security, you will contribute to strengthening the Vaillant Group’s cyber resilience and support a dedicated international team that protects millions of customers and our global business.

• Your responsibilities will include supporting our IT Security Consultancy activities by assisting with assessments, preparing guidance, and helping to clarify security related questions across the organization
• You will contribute to ensuring regulatory compliance with Cyber Security standards by analyzing requirements and supporting our internal compliance processes
• By creating and maintaining documentation, you help streamline security related processes and ensure transparency for technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Together with an interdisciplinary team, you are involved in improving our cyber security governance and supporting continuous enhancements in our protection measures
• After analyzing and evaluating business requirements, you support the adaptation of internal procedures to new regulations such as NIS2, CRA and NIST frameworks
• You will help drive a culture of security awareness by contributing to knowledge sharing initiatives and supporting internal communication efforts

What makes us successful together

• Qualification: You are an enrolled student in computer science, information technology, cyber security or a comparable study program
• Experience: You ideally bring first practical experience in IT or cyber security through coursework, labs, internships or prior student roles
• Know-how and skills: You have a basic understanding of key security frameworks such as NIS2, Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and NIST, and you are motivated to deepen your expertise
• Nice to have: experience in process documentation, governance topics, audit preparation or regulatory compliance
• Personality: You work independently, enjoy learning, and bring a structured, reliable and proactive working style that helps move topics forward
• Languages: You communicate confidently in English; German skills are a plus

What you can count on

• Flexible working hours: Each working student organizes his or her hours individually in coordination with his or her colleagues. In this way, studies and work can be flexibly coordinated
• Networking for today and tomorrow: Working in a motivated team as well as contact with a wide variety of contacts in other departments will give you the opportunity to make valuable contacts and build the network today that can benefit you later in your career choice or within your career
• Experience for (professional) life: As part of your job, you will work on varied tasks right from the start and can gain important practical experience
• Room for orientation: In the future, you will gain insights into our daily project work, get to know our internal processes and structures, and get a picture of us as an employer.