Database Engineer - Intern

Location: Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Salary: $23 per hour; 0% incentive opportunity. A $500 sign-on bonus and relocation assistance are available.

Company

hirify.global is part of a group of financial cooperatives providing credit, crop insurance, and financial services to farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses across eight states.

What you will do

• Support the installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, monitoring, and routine administration of SQL, Oracle, and cloud database environments.
• Assist with database provisioning, performance tuning, capacity planning, backups, restores, recovery, replication, and optimization.
• Help maintain database security, access controls, permissions, availability, and operational reliability.
• Diagnose database incidents, investigate root causes, implement resolutions, and document procedures and technical knowledge.
• Support test data management, data refreshes, SQL reporting, testing, deployments, and operational improvements.
• Collaborate with technical teams and business partners while learning database support procedures, including the 24x7 on-call model; interns are not expected to provide independent after-hours coverage.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Agribusiness, Information Technology, or a similar field.
• Effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Availability for a 12-week summer internship.
• Interest in database administration, engineering, security, monitoring, and operational support.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on collaboration with experienced database engineering teammates.
• Work on critical enterprise database systems supporting rural communities and agriculture.
• Competitive hourly wage and a $500 sign-on bonus.
• Relocation assistance is available.