Cloud Platform Intern — Security & FinOps (Hybrid)

The Options Clearing Corporation; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend

Generous PTO and Parental leave

401k Employer Match

Competitive health benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) invites applications for a year‑round internship in Cloud Engineering in Chicago. The role focuses on building security guardrails, policy‑as‑code, and cost‑control automation while contributing to org‑wide tooling and dashboards.

Interns work up to 20 hours per week during the school year and up to 40 hours in the summer, in a hybrid environment with in‑office anchor days.

Qualifications

• Rising senior or second-year graduate student, graduating December 2027 or May/August 2028.
• Majors: Computer Science, Information Systems, or related.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and scripting (Python), plus basic security or cost management concepts.
• Exposure to Terraform/IaC or policy-as-code tools is a plus.
• Experience with Claude code is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Intern will build/enhance platform engineering cloud security guardrails and Open Policy Agent (OPA) policies.
• Financial Operations dashboarding and reporting, and automation for cost avoidance and reduction.
• Work with the team on real backlog items, owning monitoring and remediation tooling.

Skills

Cloud security

FinOps

Python scripting

AWS cloud

Claude code

Education

Undergraduate or graduate student

Tools

Terraform/IaC

Policy-as-code

Claude code

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) invites applications for a year‑round internship in Cloud Engineering in Chicago. The role focuses on building security guardrails, policy‑as‑code, and cost‑control automation while contributing to org‑wide tooling and dashboards.

Interns work up to 20 hours per week during the school year and up to 40 hours in the summer, in a hybrid environment with in‑office anchor days.