Database Engineer - Intern

Frontier Farm Credit; Omaha (NE); Hybrid; USD 27,552,000 - 34,440,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Frontier Farm Credit is offering a Database Engineer Intern role in Omaha, NE. You will support installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, and security of enterprise databases while learning backup, recovery, tuning, and deployments.

The internship emphasizes hands-on problem solving and collaboration with IT and business partners, with a 12-week summer schedule and a relocation assistance option.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Agribusiness, Information Technology or similar degree preferred
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills (written and verbal)
• Available for a 12-week internship during the summer
• Relocation assistance is available

Responsibilities

• Provide timely, accurate support for database-related incidents, service requests, and operational issues.
• Diagnose database issues, troubleshoot root causes, and implement effective resolutions.
• Document incidents, resolutions, and procedures in the tracking systems.
• Collaborate with technical teams and partners to meet service expectations.
• Support security, access controls, backups, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Assist with database installation, configuration, patching, and routine administration.
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability, and security of databases.
• Follow established database maintenance standards and access controls.

Skills

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's or master's in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Agribusiness, IT

Job description

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AgCountry Farm Credit Services (AgCountry), Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica)and Frontier Farm Credit are financial cooperatives that operate under shared management across eight states. While each association is owned by its local farmers and ranchers, they collaborate by pooling resources, expertise, and talent to provide affordable credit, crop insurance, and financial services.
Our associations are united by a common mission and commitment to serving rural America and supporting each other, which drives the success of the farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness we serve. We take pride in being a great place to work, and this enthusiasm is reflected in the relationships our team members foster with one another and with our customers.

Job Summary

As a Database Engineer Intern, you will gain hands-on experience supporting the installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, security, maintenance, and operation of enterprise database systems and related toolsets. You will assist with database performance tuning, capacity planning, backup and recovery, security and access controls, patch management, test data management, data refreshes, SQL reporting, testing, deployments, and operational support.

Customer Service and Operational Response

• Help deliver timely, accurate, and high-quality support for database-related incidents, service requests, and operational issues.
• Assist with diagnosing database issues, troubleshooting root causes, and implementing effective resolutions.
• Document incidents, resolutions, procedures, and technical knowledge in the appropriate tracking and support systems.
• Collaborate with technical teams and business partners to help ensure service expectations are met or exceeded.
• Learn how the team supports critical database systems through its 24x7 on-call rotation; interns are not expected to independently provide after-hours coverage.

Database Administration and Engineering

• Help maintain secure, reliable, and high-performing database environments.
• Support database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and routine administration.
• Assist with provisioning, tuning, backups, recovery, replication, and system optimization.
• Support backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes.
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Follow database administration, security, and maintenance standards.
• Assist with database access and permissions.

Education Requirements

• Currently pursuing a bachelors or master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Agribusiness, Information Technology or similar degree preferred
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills (both written and verbal)
• Available for a 12-week internship during the summer
• Competitive hourly wage and $500 sign-on bonus.
• Relocation assistance is available.

*We receive the right to close this posting early if we receive a high volume of qualified applications.*

About Us:

AgCountry has 43 offices, is based in Fargo, North Dakota and serves portions of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. FCSAmerica is based in Omaha, NE and has 42 local offices serving rural communities and agriculture in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Frontier Farm Credit has six offices serving eastern Kansas. Together, we support nearly 82,000 producers and agribusinesses, meeting the needs of today’s agricultural industry with our combined 2600+ employees providing lending, risk management, technology, commodity marketing, and customer and employee education.
AgCountry Farm Credit Services, ACA, Farm Credit Services of America, ACA, and Frontier Farm Credit, ACA are Equal Employment Opportunity employers, and they comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.