Internship project: Automation of Security testing
Complete an internship project at SOPHiA GENETICS whose mission is to build the future of AI-assisted medicine. Joining the Information Security team as a Junior Info Sec Analyst intern.
Your mission:
Reporting to the Information Security Lead, you will evaluate and put in place state of the art tools to automate security testing of SOPHiA GENETICS applications and infrastructure. You will use a combination of offensive and defensive tools and techniques and then automate it to identify security issues and vulnerabilities continuously.
You will be involved in:
- Do a state of the art of security testing tools and techniques, such as Atomic Red Team, azure hound, etc
- Maintain and integrate Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing (SAST and DAST) tools In the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Review GITLAB configuration to enhance the security and code reviews
- Perform Security reviews and analysis of cloud infrastructure in Azure
- Improve our security alerting and monitoring
What you will learn:
- Industry good practices on Cybersecurity
- Both Offensive and Defensive aspect of security
- Automation in a cloud environment
Requirements
- Passionate about Cybersecurity
- Basic Knowledge on a Cloud Provider (Azure, GCP, AWS, ...)
- Software development and automation (Java, Python, Terraform is a plus)
- Basic Knowledge with Kubernetes and Docker
- Degree in IT, Cybersecurity, Information Security or related field
Benefits
You will be joining an organisation with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.
Business recognition and accolades include:
- World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
- World's smartest companies (Top 50)
- 100 Best Places to Work in Boston
- Top 10 European Tech Startup
- Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
- Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch
Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview:
- 35h
- SWILE meal vouchers and home office allowances
Our DNA
Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous
Our Virtues
At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action. We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.
At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal
The Process
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Apply now with your CV and any supporting information.
Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.
We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilise agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.
Starting Date: January, 2026
Location: Bidart, FR
Contract: Internship contract, full time - 6 months
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What We Do
SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH) is a healthcare technology company dedicated to establishing the practice of data-driven medicine as the standard of care and for life sciences research. It is the creator of the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform, a cloud-based SaaS platform capable of analyzing data and generating insights from complex multimodal data sets and different diagnostic modalities. The SOPHiA DDM™ Platform and related solutions, products and services are currently used by more than 780 hospital, laboratory, and biopharma institutions globally.
Why Work With Us
This is not just a tech company, it’s not only about algorithms and data, it’s more than that. It’s bold, visionary, and altruistic. Democratizing health outcomes is bigger than a spreadsheet, a sale, or a line of code. It’s all of those things coming together with driven, curious people to deliver this audacious vision.
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