Associate Database Administrator (December '24 and June '25 Grads)

$100,000 - $105,000/Yr

Costar Group - Irvine, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Irvine, CA

Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We've continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. Costar Group is looking for recent graduates who are passionate about areas of technology such as software development, mobile and web development, data analytics, data science, cybersecurity, and systems administration.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects AWS Database Engines (RDS, DynamoDB) and/or Azure Database Engines (Managed Instances, Data Warehouse) including administration.
• Include DB technology evaluation, guidance and consultation, design support, task automation and scripting, best practice and standards development, capacity planning, optimization and tuning, system upgrades and migrations, performance management, monitoring, security, backup, and recovery, issue troubleshooting, and documentation.
• Deploy, configure, monitor, and maintain databases in the production, development, and quality assurance environments.
• Understand AWS-based architecture and closely work with DevOps, SecOps to develop scripts to deploy and maintain the environment.
• Work with Operations & Development team planning server/server-less resource requirements to decide the proper size for specific application requirements and performance metrics.
• Process database change requests, including the creation and modification of databases, tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, jobs, etc. in accordance with change control policies.
• Analyze problems, anticipate future problem areas, and implement solutions.
• Work outside of normal business hours as required for completing projects, working on deployments, and resolving system outages.
• Responsible for level 2 systems management and exercises project-level control over initiatives.
• Recommend and implement solutions for performance monitoring and tuning.
• Help to administrate and integrating with Microsoft SQL Server so minimum MSFT SQL DBA skill is required.
• Carries out assignments with minimal coaching and guidance from others.
• Develops, enhances, and adheres to engineering and administration standards. Upholds and maintains strong documentation.
• To be placed on on-call rotation for a week every 3 months and respond to system alerts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer/software engineering, or comparable major graduating between December 2024 and June 2025.
• 3+ months of software related internship experience.
• Microsoft SQL Server Management experience.
• Other Relational Database Management experience either MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Supporting large data platforms.
• Experience solving data engineering problems with any NoSQL data platforms like Spark, Solr, MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB.
• Knowledge of any monitoring tools such as Kibana, AWS CloudWatch, DataDog, etc.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Linux Server platform.
• Cloud migration experience.
• Expertise in database administration for large Data warehouse/DataMart implementations including configuration, implementation, data modeling, maintenance.
• Experience with Data Warehouse technologies such as AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Azure Data Warehouse or Data Analytics.
• Experience with relevant scripting languages or programming frameworks desired (PowerShell, Python, NodeJS, JavaScript, bash).
• Excellent technical expertise in relevant state-of-the-art data technologies, database warehouse data security, data systems, and its design.
• Knowledge of automation tools & Scripts: ELK, PRTG, Jenkins, Chef, Lamda, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Automation, etc.
• The ideal candidate will have experience with at least one of the Public Cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud Services, and Azure experience.
• Expertise in database administration for configuration, implementation, maintenance, redundancy/HA/DR, security, troubleshooting/performance tuning, upgrades, database, data and server migrations, SQL.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental, and Prescription Drug coverage.
• Mental Health Wellness Program.
• Life, Legal, and Supplementary Insurance.
• Commuter and Parking Benefits.
• 401(K) Retirement Plan with matching contributions.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Paid Time Off.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Access to an on-site fitness center (or reimbursed fitness center membership costs), yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes, and Segways and bikes for the day.
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, prepared foods, fresh fruit, and healthy snacks.