Database Administrator Intern at Uline supporting database architecture and development processes. Work alongside IT professionals in a collaborative, hands - on environment for summer internship.
About the role
- Design, deploy, and manage high-performance SQL + NoSQL databases powering cloud ecosystems. Ensure uptime and implement AI-driven optimizations in database production environments.
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Ownership: Design, deploy, and manage high-performance databases (SQL + NoSQL) powering cloud ecosystems.
- Customer-First Reliability: Ensure 24×7 uptime and low-latency access for customer-facing workloads; establish proactive monitoring and failover systems.
- AI-Native Automation: Implement AI-driven query optimization, anomaly detection, and predictive scaling using performance telemetry.
- Performance & Optimization: Continuously tune schema, indexing, and query design to achieve sub-second responses and minimal cost per transaction.
- Security & Compliance: Manage encryption, secrets, access control, and data integrity across multi-cloud environments; enforce least-privilege and zero-trust policies.
- Disaster Recovery & Backups: Design automated backup, replication, and restore workflows with near-zero data loss objectives.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Cloud, Firmware, and AI teams to align data models, telemetry ingestion, and analytics pipelines.
- Documentation & Learning: Maintain clear, living documentation and share knowledge to improve organizational resilience.
Requirements
- 15+ years managing production databases at scale (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar).
- Deep understanding of indexing, replication, partitioning, and sharding in distributed systems.
- Proven experience with AWS RDS / DynamoDB / Cassandra or GCP equivalents.
- Strong in SQL tuning, query plan analysis, and capacity planning for high-concurrency workloads.
- Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD integration for DB changes.
- Familiarity with IoT telemetry or event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQTT, TimescaleDB).
- Solid grounding in data security and privacy best practices (encryption, RBAC, audit logs, GDPR).
- Bias for action, clarity, and customer empathy: you care deeply about what your uptime means to someone using the product.
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