Type ? 24-month apprenticeship (from Bachelor's +3 to Master's +5)

When ? Starting September 1, 2026

Where ? Paris 17th arrondissement

YOUR FUTURE PLATFORM FOR EXPRESSION

About AXA

Present in 51 countries, AXA's 145,000 employees and distributors are committed to serving 93 million customers. Our expertise is expressed through a range of products and services tailored to each customer in three main business areas: property and casualty insurance, life insurance, savings, retirement & health, and asset management.

As one of the world's largest insurers, our purpose is to act for human progress by protecting what matters. Protection has always been at the heart of our business, helping individuals, companies, and societies thrive. And AXA has always been a leader, an innovator, an entrepreneurial company, fostering progress in all its dimensions.

Our values reflect the culture that the Group's teams around the world live and express every day. The strength of AXA's corporate culture and its remarkable managerial continuity for over 40 years is also evident in the consistency of its values across different eras. Courage, Integrity, One AXA, and Customer First are the four core values adopted by the Group since 2016.

About our entity

AXA Group Operations is a sustainable, technology-driven business. Our entity is one of the key drivers of the AXA Group's transformation. We are working to strengthen the evolution of our insurance business model through technology, operations, data, and innovation. We ensure its concrete implementation on a global scale with recognized expertise in quality of execution and customer service. We are present in 16 countries with highly qualified and committed teams.

The AXA Group Operations teams are composed of :

Group Technology Operations and Group CIO: define AXA's overall IT strategy; promote IT convergence within the entities and provide them with shared services;

Group Security: protects employees, our stakeholders, and the AXA brand by securing information and managing cybersecurity, physical security, and operational resilience;

Group Data AI & Innovation : defines the ambitions regarding the Group's data maturity; builds and manages the community; conducts research and expertise; assists the less data-mature entities; identifies cutting-edge technologies and develops disruptive ones for the entities; Creates use cases for specific technologies with the entities;

Group Procurement and Sourcing : defines AXA's purchasing strategy, guidelines, and Group standards; manages relationships with our strategic suppliers and accelerates business procurement;

Group Strategic Program Management : ensures the alignment of global projects with the Group's strategy; oversees the implementation and performance of strategic projects;

GO General Secretary & Risk : defines the risk management framework and ensures its proper integration into the design of our products and procedures to facilitate decision-making in a more secure environment.

GO Transformation : accelerates agile transformation within Group Operations; establishes and implements a common human resources, communication, and change management strategy for our entity.

GO Strategy, Organization & Processes : The GO Strategy team leads the definition and implementation of the AXA Group's operational strategy, directs GO's investments, and ensures the successful execution of GO's strategic and critical projects. GO Organization, Processes & Data manages and oversees how we operate across GO: ensuring our organizational structure aligns with our target operating model, and defining and implementing a common methodology for process improvement.

GO Finance : GO's Finance department guides and monitors GO's strategy, plans, prepares and tracks budgets and financial statements in accordance with regulatory requirements, monitors cash flow, and ensures strict compliance with local and international tax laws and regulations.

YOUR ROLE AND YOUR MISSIONS

In this context, you will join the SOC (Security Operations Center) within the Cyberdefense department.

Reporting to the CERT Incident Response Team Lead, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Continue the development of a virtual assistant (conversational agent) based on ChatGPT, designed to help analysts conduct security alert investigations.

• Development of the backend based on the ChatGPT API (aka SecureGPT)

• Implementation of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to generate responses that take into account the context and the AXA environment

• Integration of data sources via API

• Writing prompts to optimize the assistant's responses

• Design, develop, and deploy autonomous intelligent agents (agentic AI) capable of interacting with security tools for alert processing

…You will develop :

• Frontend and backend programming skills
• Artificial Intelligence skills
• Azure cloud services skills
• Containerization technology skills
• CI/CD skills
• Skills in using and integrating LLM (Large Language Model) and prompt engineering
• Knowledge of operational cybersecurity and Security Operations Centers

YOUR PROFILE

…You enjoy :

• Programming
• Artificial intelligence
• Cybersecurity

Education/Engineering school or University / specializing in cybersecurity, software development and/or AI (Bachelor's degree + 3 years)

Ideal work-study schedule: long term (at least one week before work begins)

Work-study schedule Avoid: short rotations (within one week)

Duration of apprenticeship: 2 years

Soft Skills:

• Autonomy
• Good communication skills
• Analytical and synthesis skills
• Organized
• Professional (handling confidential documents, meeting deadlines, etc.)
• Caring, attentive, and willing to give and receive regular feedback

Hard Skills :

• Proficient in Python and HTML programming languages
• Knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs)
• General knowledge of cybersecurity issues
• General knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL)

Languages : Fluent English and French (all documents must be written in English)

IT Tools :

Office 365; Azure; Visual Studio Code; GitHub Copilot; Docker

WHY JOIN US ?

AXA has always been committed to recruiting young people. Through apprenticeships, we offer students a genuine opportunity for professional integration. Apprenticeships also allow us to benefit from a fresh, critical, and external perspective on our working methods, tools, and communication styles.

Our apprentices share the life of a team and experience professional life. They thus embark on a skills development path. The talent identified among them also forms a recruitment pool for our permanent and fixed-term contract positions.

Our differences are our strengths. At AXA in France, more than 76 nationalities work together in a wide variety of professions. And that's what makes us strong! That's why we strive to promote equality and diversity at all levels (gender diversity, disability, sexual orientation, etc.).