Year-Round Intern - Cloud Engineering

OCC•Chicago, IL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

OCC is seeking interns eager to learn, humble enough to ask questions, and ready to think critically about complex problems. The OCC Internship Program equips students with the real-world skills needed to transition successfully into a career in financial services. As an intern, you will contribute to meaningful projects, applying your skills and knowledge to real challenges facing the business. Your time with us is a real opportunity to make a genuine impact on the future of OCC! OCC's Year-Round Internship Program is a 12-month opportunity running from January through December and is open to both undergraduate and graduate students who are actively enrolled at a college or university. Interns work up to 20 hours per week during the school year and up to 40 hours per week during the summer, subject to a 1,000-hour cap. The role is based in a hybrid work environment, and overtime is not permitted. The Cloud Engineering team owns Platform Engineering Team security guardrails, governance controls, and cost optimization (FinOps) across the AWS platform. We build and maintain policy-as-code, IAM/permission boundaries, cost anomaly detection, and tagging/chargeback tooling. The intern will support automation of security and cost controls, contributing to tools used org-wide.

Requirements

Rising senior or second-year graduate student, graduating December 2027 or May/August 2028.
Coursework or project experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
Exposure to scripting (Python).
Familiarity with basic security or cost management concepts.
Strong analytical skills.
Comfort with ambiguity.
Interest in cloud security or FinOps as a career.
Interested in developing automation to solve problems.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to Terraform/IaC or policy-as-code tools a plus.
Experience with Claude code a plus as it is used in daily work.

Responsibilities

Build/enhance platform engineering cloud security guardrails.
Build and enhance Open Policy Agent (OPA) policies for security guardrail checks and for standards.
Financial Operations dashboarding and reporting.
Automation for cleanup and alerting to help with cloud cost avoidance and reduction.
Support automation of security and cost controls, contributing to tools used org-wide.
Work alongside the team on real backlog items, responsibilities map directly to ownership of monitoring and remediation tooling.