Year-Round Intern - Cloud Engineering
The OCC•Chicago, IL
•Hybrid
About The Position
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.
- Desired Majors: Computer Science, Information Systems, or related.
- 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.
- Working alongside the team on real backlog items, responsibilities map directly to ownership of monitoring and remediation tooling.
Benefits
- Paid sick leave accrued based on hours worked.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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