Student Cloud Data Integration and Infrastructure Analytics - Hourly

Support infrastructure operations, operational analytics, and cloud data integration. The student will be embedded within Enterprise Services to develop an understanding of enterprise technology operations, identify meaningful operational metrics, and help improve service delivery through data-informed decisions.

This role combines infrastructure operations, data engineering, analytics, and automation. The student will work with infrastructure engineers and service owners to understand workloads, identify opportunities for greater efficiency and visibility, and develop monitoring and reporting solutions that support reliable cloud and enterprise services.

A primary focus of the position is integrating operational data from Microsoft cloud platforms, including Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Graph, into Microsoft Fabric. The student will also work with TeamDynamix and other enterprise systems to create scalable datasets, automated data pipelines, monitoring solutions, and operational dashboards.

Regular, reliable, and non-disruptive attendance is an essential job duty, as is the ability to create and maintain collegial, harmonious working relationships with others.

• Current student in computer science, data science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.

• Working knowledge of Python programming.

• Experience working with REST APIs and JSON data.

• Understanding of data integration, transformation, and analysis concepts.

• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues involving authentication, permissions, connectivity, and data retrieval.

• Interest in cloud infrastructure, enterprise operations, automation, monitoring, and analytics.

• Ability to work independently, learn unfamiliar systems, and communicate when assistance is needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Graph API or Azure APIs.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, including pipelines, notebooks, dataflows, lakehouse, or data engineering workloads.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, or Microsoft Entra ID.

• Experience with Power BI, semantic models, or operational dashboards.

• Experience combining data from multiple systems.

• Familiarity with TeamDynamix.

• Experience using Git or another source-control platform.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to identify and document meaningful metrics for assigned infrastructure services and workloads.
• Ability to develop and maintain reliable integrations with Microsoft cloud services.
• Ability to build reusable Fabric assets that support monitoring and reporting.
• Improve awareness of workload health, adoption, utilization, or service delivery.
• Reduce repetitive operational reporting or data preparation.
• Provide accurate, complete, and understandable operational data.
• Complete agreed work with appropriate communication and follow-through.
• Ensure solutions can be supported and extended by others.
• Demonstrate increasing independence across infrastructure and data work.
• Work effectively with engineers, service owners, and stakeholders., Persons must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States on the first day of employment.

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas is a land grant institution, classified by the Carnegie Foundation among the nation’s top 2 percent of universities with the highest level of research activity. The University of Arkansas works to advance the state and build a better world through education, research, and outreach by providing transformational opportunities and skills, fostering a welcoming climate, and nurturing creativity, discovery, and the spread of new ideas and innovations.

The University of Arkansas campus is located in Fayetteville, a welcoming community ranked as one of the best places to live in the U.S. The growing region surrounding Fayetteville is home to numerous Fortune 500 companies and one of the nation’s strongest economies. Northwest Arkansas is also quickly gaining a national reputation for its focus on the arts and overall quality of life.

As an employer, the University of Arkansas offers a vibrant work environment and a workplace culture that promotes a healthy work-life balance. The benefits package includes university contributions to health, dental, life and disability insurance, tuition waivers for employees and their families, 12 official holidays, immediate leave accrual, and a choice of retirement programs with university contributions ranging from 5 to 10% of employee salary.