AI / Machine Learning Engineer (AWS – FinTech Security)

About the Role

We are seeking detail-oriented Accounting Interns to join our team remotely for a 3-month internship. This internship is ideal for students or recent graduates interested in accounting, bookkeeping, and financial reporting. While this is an unpaid internship, interns who successfully complete the program will receive a Completion Certificate and a Letter of Recommendation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining financial records and ledgers.
• Support accounts payable and receivable processes.
• Help in preparing financial statements, reports, and reconciliations.
• Assist in budgeting and expense tracking.
• Collaborate with the finance team to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Support audits and documentation of accounting processes.

Requirements

• Basic understanding of accounting principles, financial statements, and bookkeeping.
• Familiarity with MS Excel/Google Sheets for financial data management.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in handling numbers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Good communication skills and professionalism.

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience in accounting and financial management.
• Exposure to real-world accounting processes and reporting.
• Mentorship from experienced accounting professionals.
• Completion Certificate upon successful completion.
• Letter of Recommendation based on performance.

Internship Details

• Duration: 3 months
• Location: Remote (Work from Home)
• Stipend: Unpaid
• Perks: Completion Certificate + Letter of Recommendation

Technical Requirements

Any one Cloud Certification is madatory (AZ104 / AWS solution)

· Strong knowledge of application operations in cloud environments (Azure - Must , AWS understanding)

· Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).

· Experience with incident management, RCA, and operational troubleshooting.

· Understanding of CI/CD concepts, tooling and ability to work with release teams.

· Familiarity with infrastructure components: load balancers, storage networking, DNS and certificates.

· Experience with automation and scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).

· Knowledge of application deployment patterns (blue/green, rolling, canary).

· Understanding of security practices: access controls, vulnerability handling, compliance alignment.

· Ability to interpret logs, metrics, traces, and performance data.

· Experience managing multi-environment application lifecycles (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod).

· Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, ARM, AWS CloudFormation for

environment provisioning and configuration consistency.

Functional Requirements

· Ability to ensure 24x7 application reliability and operational excellence.

· Manage end-to-end application lifecycle including deployments, configurations, and environment

health.

· Collaborate with engineering, CloudOps, and Security teams to ensure smooth operations.

· Own operational KPIs such as uptime, MTTR, change success rate, and SLA/SLO adherence.

· Perform release coordination, deployment validation, and post-release monitoring.

· Lead incident response, communication, and escalation handling.

· Participate in change management and risk assessments for all application changes.

· Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation.

· Drive continuous improvement for operational workflows and process maturity.

· Support audit, compliance, and security requirements for applications.

Job Description

Who we are looking for:

A Senior consultant with proven technical and consultative experience, fluent Japanese language proficiency, and expected to be strong in both technical and interpersonal skills. A Senior Consultant must be a proven self-starter with the ability to problem-solve, communicate, participate in diverse project teams from a technical perspective, and interface effectively with customers, vendor partners, and colleagues. You will actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. Deliver timely engagements and work closely with Practice Directors to drive training and education, career development, performance development, and collaboration across the team. In line with Optiv’s commitment to quality, you will confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv’s quality standards, by reviewing the work provided by other members.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Comfortably deliver solo-based work or act as "point" for complex projects

• Acts as technical escalation point to assist other consultants

• Lead in creation, development and delivery of custom security solutions

• Lead security and compliance program-related development and implementation efforts

• Design, implement and educate on specific security processes

• Effectively provide knowledge transfer and post-engagement support activities as necessary

• Excellent team communicator

• Mentor less experienced consultants

• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations such as ISACA, ISC2 etc.

• Consistently complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting

• Support and occasionally lead practice related development efforts including training and awareness, performance development and cyber strategy accelerators

• Act as contributor in Optiv communities for solutions of focus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and related work experience

• Proven security architecture experience

• Strong knowledge of multiple security concepts and methods such as vulnerability assessments, data classification, privacy assessments, incident response, security policy creation, enterprise security strategies, architectures and governance

• Strong understanding of networking (TCP/IP, OSI model), operating system fundamentals (Windows, UNIX, mainframe), security technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.) and application programming/scripting languages (C, Java, Perl, Shell)

• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance issues affecting clients related to privacy and data protection, such as PCI DSS, GLBA, Basel II, EU Data Protection Directive, International Cross Border, and U.S. State Data Privacy Laws

• Expert knowledge of using Microsoft Office

• Ability to build relationships with and influence other functional areas

• Well-developed negotiation skills

• Ability to build consensus

• Solid business acumen and basic project management expertise.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel

• Willingness to travel to meet client needs.

Good-to-Have Criteria

• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CEH, or equivalent
• Exposure to cloud security platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience in data privacy & cross-border compliance projects
• Advanced skills in automation, scripting, or security orchestration
• Previous consulting experience with global clients
• Participation in professional associations (ISACA, ISC2, etc.)
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Mandatory Criteria:

• Need candidate having Fluent Japanese language proficiency.
• Need candidate from Cybersecurity companies Only.
• Certifications required by the candidate - (Either from given two) - ISO 27001 or CISSP
• Candidate should have experience in Security architecture & Consulting
• Candidate should have Strong expertise in networking, operating systems (Windows/UNIX/mainframe), firewalls, IDS/IPS
• Candidate should have Knowledge of scripting/programming languages (C, Java, Perl, Shell)
• Candidate should have Hands-on experience in vulnerability assessments, incident response, policy creation, governance
• Candidate should have Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks (PCI DSS, GLBA, Basel II, EU Data Protection, US State Privacy Laws)
• Candidate should have Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills
• Candidate should have Ability to mentor, lead projects, and work in diverse teams
• Candidate should be Willing to travel as per business/project requirements

Required Experience: 

Skill Set:

• Primary skills
• Experienced Database resource with 4+ years of experience in following Mainframe technologies:
• DB2
• DB2 Stored Procedures, native SQL
• COBOL, JCL
• UDB- Universal Database DB2 on Linux/Unix
• Batch Processing
• MQ

• Good to have skills
• Knowledge of distributed applications and Unix scripting, Python is good to have.
• Prior experience on Mainframe modernization.
• Prior Morgan Stanley or Financial Services experience is a plus

1. Create Exclusive Distributors (minimum 4 in 4 months) in your respective areas of operation

1. To work directly with the distributor and the sales executives in designing and implementing key marketing campaigns.

1. To actively engage yourself to collect inventory, stocks and work reports of the distributor in a

daily/weekly basis.

1. To look after smooth functioning and supply chain of the authorized distributor under your

periphery.

1. To oversee sales executive schedule and plan them accordingly.

1. To facilitate cross-functional communications among project stakeholders.

1. To actively engage yourself with core marketing policies required for business development.

1. To look after the grievances and claims arising from time to time maintaining proper

coordination with the company.

1. To actively follow other marketing strategies and instructions as and when instructed by the company.

• AWS Cloud, CICD, Serverless setups, Monitoring Setup
• Performance setup, scalability in hands experience, Linux expertise, DevOps Operations

• AWS Cloud, CICD, Serverless setups, Monitoring Setup, Performance setup, scalability in hands experience, Linux expertise, DevOps Operations.

1. Develop or integrate with a Charging management system (CMS).
2. Develop the backend for the apps (subscription, locating, reservation, payments, operation).
3. Develop the backend for the host apps (setting availability, pricing).
4. Develop the central dashboard for internal purposes.
5. Develop the dashboard for monthly revenue remittance to hosts.
6. Develop a dashboard for network partners.
7. Develop the system for custom ad delivery in invoices.
8. Setup, Deploy and Manage the servers and APIs.