Position Details

Type Internship

Experience intern

Exp. Years Not specified

Education Not specified

Category Database Administration

About this role

This internship supports both traditional SQL Server DBA tasks and modern data engineering work in a cloud data lakehouse environment. You will assist senior DBAs and data engineers with operational maintenance and pipeline development using Azure services and Snowflake.

Key Responsibilities

Assist DBAs with health checks, index maintenance, job monitoring, troubleshooting
Help build, test, and maintain data pipelines in Azure Data Factory and Snowflake
Support ingestion, organization, and optimization of data in Azure Data Lake Storage
Contribute to dbt models and transformations under guidance
Support data governance, documentation, and operational reliability

Technical Overview

The role centers on Microsoft SQL Server administration (backups, restores, monitoring, performance tuning, security fundamentals) and data engineering using Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Snowflake, and dbt for data modeling and transformations. You will support data governance, documentation, and operational reliability for analytics-ready data pipelines.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a college intern who is passionate about data and eager to learn database administration and data engineering. They have hands-on or coursework exposure to Microsoft SQL Server administration and building data pipelines in Azure (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage) and/or Snowflake, plus familiarity with dbt for data modeling and transformations.

Must-Have Skills

SQL Server administrationAzure Data FactoryAzure Data Lake StorageSnowflakedbt

Tools & Platforms

Microsoft SQL ServerAzure Data FactoryAzure Data Lake StorageSnowflakedbtAzure

Required Skills

SQL Server administrationbackupsrestoresmonitoringperformance tuningsecurity fundamentalsAzure Data FactoryAzure Data Lake StorageSnowflakedata modelingtransformationdbtdata governancedocumentationoperational reliabilityhealth checksindex maintenancejob monitoringtroubleshootingdata pipelinesingestionoptimization of data

Hard Skills

SQL Server administrationbackupsrestoresmonitoringperformance tuningsecurity fundamentalsAzure Data FactoryAzure Data Lake StorageSnowflakedata engineering workflowsdata modelingdata transformationdbtdata governancedocumentationoperational reliabilityhealth checksindex maintenancejob monitoringtroubleshootingdata pipelinesingestionoptimization of data

Soft Skills

motivationeager to learnability to work closely with senior DBAs and data engineerscollaborationability to contribute under guidance

Industry & Role

Industry Aerospace & Defense

Job Function Support SQL Server DBA operations and cloud data lakehouse pipeline development as a data engineering intern

Role Subtype SQL DBA

Tech Domains Azure, SQL / PostgreSQL, Data & Analytics, ITSM / ServiceNow

Keywords for Your Resume

DBA / Data Engineering COOPDatabase AdministratorSQL Server administrationbackupsrestoresmonitoringperformance tuningsecurity fundamentalsAzure Data FactoryAzure Data Lake StorageSnowflakedata modelingtransformationdbtdata governancedocumentationoperational reliabilityData LakehouseData pipelinehealth checksindex maintenancejob monitoringtroubleshooting

Deal Breakers

Must be an active college intern/college student (internship role)

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