Intern - Database Administration & Observability Specialist (Foglight / Elastic)

Choosing a career at Lombard Odier means working for a renowned, global asset manager and asset manager focused on sustainable investments. We are an independent and innovative bank of first choice for private and institutional clients. Our group is one of the best capitalised worldwide. We manage around CHF 300 billion and operate from over 25 offices on four continents.

With our over 230-year history, we are an investment house offering a comprehensive range of discretionary and advisory portfolio management as well as financial services. We also successfully market our state-of-the-art technology platform to other financial institutions. Through Lombard Odier Investment Managers, we offer asset management services and investment strategies.

"Rethink Everything" is our philosophy – it is at the heart of everything we do. We have become stronger through more than 40 financial crises by constantly rethinking the world around us. This allows us to always offer our clients new investment perspectives.

Intern - Database Administration & Observability Specialist (Foglight / Elastic)

As part of strengthening database supervision and deploying a centralised observability platform, the DBA team is looking for an intern to support a strategic project around Foglight (database monitoring) and its integration with the Elastic platform used bank-wide.

This internship offers hands-on exposure to critical banking environments, modern supervision technologies, and a cross-functional project involving several IT teams (DBA, Systems, Security, Observability).

The intern will assist the DBA team in monitoring, coordinating, deploying, and documenting the Foglight project, as well as its integration with the Elastic observability platform.

The internship combines:

• Functional project management,

• Guided technical implementation,

• Communication and documentation,

• Discovery of best practices in banking supervision.

YOUR MISSION

1. Management and coordination of the Foglight project

• Participate in monitoring the overall Foglight & Elastic schedule.

• Organise and coordinate meetings with:

  • DB technology referents within the DBA team,

  • Systems, Security, and Observability teams.

• Prepare minutes, tracking tables, and progress reports.

• Contribute to the smooth flow of information between teams.

2. Implementation of Foglight supervision

Guided by DBA experts, the intern will participate in:

• Adding Test / UAT / Production environments in Foglight.

• Validating the collected metrics for the different DBMS.

• Creating high-level health dashboards by technology.

• Defining and configuring relevant alerts.

• Integrating with ServiceNow for automatic incident creation.

• Integrating with Elastic for forwarding supervision metrics.

3. Documentation and structuring

• Write and maintain project documentation.

• Produce functional documentation of the Foglight → Elastic integration.

• Create user guides and internal procedures for IT teams.

4. Support for internal training

• Prepare training materials (presentations, guides).

• Contribute to organising and ensuring the smooth running of internal training sessions on Foglight and Elastic.

5. Communication and project visibility

• Prepare official internal communications related to the project.

• Update Confluence / Teams spaces.

• Participate in communication around observability topics within the bank.

Specific missions – Elastic Observability

• Gather and formalise needs for metrics, alerts, and dashboards in Elastic.

• Functionally describe Foglight → Elastic data flows.

• Coordinate exchanges between the DBA and Observability teams.

• Monitor the progress of integration carried out by expert teams.

• Consolidate alert needs (priorities FATAL / HIGH).

• Participate in supervising the execution of automated jobs:

  • Script review (VisualCron, crontab),

  • Adapting notifications to Elastic,

  • Creating an execution tracking dashboard,

  • Gradual removal of email notifications.

Expected deliverables

• Project schedule and progress dashboard.

• Complete documentation for Foglight & Elastic Observability.

• Operational supervision of the 4 DBMS via Foglight.

• Internal training materials.

• Internal communications ready for distribution.

• End-of-internship summary report.

YOUR PROFILE

• Recent or ongoing education (Bachelor or Master) in computer science, information systems, software engineering, or equivalent.

• Strong interest in databases, supervision, observability, and complex IT environments.

• Basic knowledge appreciated:

  • Databases (SQL, DB concepts),

  • Systems (Linux/Windows),

  • Monitoring or observability tools (a plus).

• Comfortable with documentation, written and oral communication.

• Rigour, organisation, curiosity, and a collaborative spirit.

• Residence in Switzerland or willingness to relocate there.

Five values define the DNA of our house. Excellence motivates us to be the best in our field, and Innovation enables our progress. Respect is the foundation of our interactions, and Integrity guides our actions. Together we are One Team, passionately committed to serving our clients.

We promote an inclusive and integrative working environment for our employees. Diversity, equality, and inclusion are firmly embedded in our corporate philosophy ‘La Maison’ and we strive to ensure that our employees can achieve both their professional and personal goals. We encourage internal career paths through individualised and competency-based training offers. We are firmly convinced that building diverse teams contributes to our sustainable success and is therefore the foundation of our corporate strategy.

It is a great opportunity to become part of the team. All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.