Database Administration Intern - Summer 2024
Job Description
Database Administration Intern
Irvine, CA
OVERVIEW
Costar Group is looking for students who are passionate about areas of technology such as software development, mobile and web development, database & data engineering, quality assurance, data science, cybersecurity, and systems administration.
The program will consist of a variety of technical training, professional development networking events, and collaboration on challenging technical projects.
COMPANY OVERVIEW
CoStar Group is the world’s leading provider of information and marketing solutions for the Commercial Real Estate industry. We are a NASDAQ 100 listed company along with S&P 500 listing, with a market cap of over US$30B and sit alongside other notable names such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple.
As a technology company, we are the trusted partner for all commercial real estate professionals empowering many of the most well-respected landlords, development companies, brokerage firms, banks, lenders, investors, and government agencies.
We do this by actively researching the commercial real estate markets and providing data, analytics, innovative tools, and powerful marketing platforms in the U.S. and Internationally to help our clients transact with one another. CoStar Group continues to win multiple awards, including one of Forbes most innovative companies (2017) and Fortune’s fastest growing companies (2018). Headquartered in Washington, DC, CoStar Group maintains offices throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Canada, and Asia, with a staff of over 4,300 worldwide.
Job Description
We are looking for a Database Administration Intern working as part of our team to help manage and maintain our enterprise systems in AWS. Our enterprise systems serve our corporate and commercial users, and as such, you would assist in maintaining DynamoDB, Aurora RDS, EC2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MS SQL. The Database Engineer Intern will also focus on monitoring tools like DataDog for our database infrastructure in the cloud. This team supports over 700 database servers that help run our web applications, such as Apartments.com, Homes.com, LoopNet.com, and Costar.com, which are used by millions of customers every day.
Are you a self-starter, love the challenge of solving problems and enjoy working directly with people? Do you enjoy diagnosing complex challenges? Are you motivated to help yourself and the team grow? Then CoStar is the place for you.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Must be actively enrolled in a bachelor's program and pursuing a degree in one of the following disciplines: computer science, computer engineering, information technology, information systems, or business information technology
• Must be a rising junior or senior for consideration
• Must have hands-on experience with AWS related technologies such as DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora RDS, S3, EC2, Lambda, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, FSx, Redshift, ElastiCache, or DMS
PREFERED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
• 1 year of hands-on database management experience in MS SQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• 1 year of experience solving data engineering problems with any NoSQL data platforms like Spark, Solr, MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB
• 1 year of experience with relevant scripting languages or programming frameworks desired (PowerShell, Python, NodeJS, JavaScript, bash)
• Cloud migration experience
• Expertise in database administration for configuration, implementation, maintenance, redundancy/HA/DR, security, troubleshooting/performance tuning, upgrades, database, data, and server migrations
• Knowledge of any monitoring tools such as Kibana, AWS CloudWatch, DataDog, etc
• Knowledge of automation tools & Scripts: ELK, PRTG, Jenkins, Chef, Lamda, Terraform, AWS CloudFomation, Azure Automation, etc.
This position offers an hourly wage of $45.00 per hour.
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing