IT Database Intern - Spring 2025 Job Listing at Norfolk Southern in Atlanta, GA (Job ID 1214385500)

Description

Requisition 37858:  

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Norfolk Southern offers a unique opportunity to be part of our proud legacy that spans nearly 200 years. We are a customer-centric, operations-driven team dedicated to advancing safety, serving communities, and driving innovation for tomorrow's rail.  As part of Norfolk Southern, you'll join a collaborative team where there are opportunities for growth across the organization. We are building a culture where everyone can thrive by owning and driving exceptional results, being humble and leading with trust, serving our customers with excellence, and collaborating and coaching to win.

A Day in the Life of an IT Database Intern  

This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in database management and administration within a dynamic and supportive environment. You will work closely with our experienced database administrators to learn best practices and contribute to real-world projects.    

As a Norfolk Southern Intern, you will expect to gain the following experience: 

• Hands-on Experience: engage in meaningful projects that align with your academic and career goals.
• Mentorship: benefit from guidance and mentorship from seasoned professionals in your department.
• Professionally Network: connect with professionals across various departments, building valuable relationships for your future career.
• Learning Opportunities: access training and development resources to enhance your skills and knowledge.
• Inclusive Environment: join a diverse and inclusive workplace that values collaboration and innovation.

Responsibilities 

• Provide database administration and programming in python, advanced Unix commands, Microsoft SharePoint, Spotfire BI, Apache Hadoop, and NoSQL databases.
• Assist the senior database administrators with database changes, SQL and database tuning, workload management, automation, scheduling of tasks, backup monitoring and alerting.
• Collaborate with team leads, database administrators, automation engineers, and business intelligence teams.
• Help deploy database automation using Rest API, python, shell scripting and integration tasks in Service Now.
• Assist in network configuration, devices, protocols, and optimizations.
• Help develop, debug and profile within databases. 

Education Required 

• Pursuing Bachelors Degree or higher in CIS, MIS, Engineering or related technology field required.  
• Active enrolled student during the months of Jan through April 2025 
  • Freshman (27 or fewer credits) 
  • Sophomore (28 to 59 credits) 
  • Junior (60 to 89 credits) 
  • Senior (90 or more credits) 
  • Graduate Student 

Skills Required 

• 1+ year experience in SQL. 
• Understanding of linux or unix environments, including experience in shell scripting.

Skills Preferred 

• Familiarity with large-scale database architectures. 
• Understanding of database capacity, bottlenecks, memory utilization, CPU usage, OS, storage, and networks.
• Enterprise security solutions such as LDAP and Active Directory.
• RDBMS, such as Oracle or MS SQL server.
• Source code control methodology and real systems (GitHub).
• Understanding of on premise and public cloud network architectures.
• Automation exposure in AWS Aurora, could native databases, databricks or terraform. 

Work Conditions
Location: Atlanta, GA 
Environment: Hybrid (two days in office; three days remote) 
Duration: 12 weeks 
Schedule: Monday through Friday; 9AM -5PM 
 

Company Overview

Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.

At Norfolk Southern, we believe in celebrating our individuality. By leveraging the unique backgrounds and viewpoints of our employees, we can create a culture of innovation, respect, and inclusion. We know that employees thrive in a workplace where differing viewpoints, ideas, and experiences are freely shared and valued. As such, we encourage all employees to contribute their distinctive skills and capabilities to our organization.

Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Together, we power progress.