Cloud Database Admin Position Available In Greenville, South Carolina

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 322 Rhett Street, Greenville, South Carolina, United States – 29601 Purpose Financial, Inc. is an innovative consumer financial services company that offers a diverse suite of credit products, promoting financial inclusion and meeting consumers wherever they are. Through its brands, the company is committed to helping customers achieve their version of financial stability in the moment and in the future. Since 1997, Purpose Financial has been a pioneer in the consumer credit and financial services market offering money solutions in over 800 storefronts locations and online lending. Providing services in over 23 states, Purpose Financial employs over 2,500 team members.
At Purpose Financial we are always on the lookout for motivated individuals who share in our values of mutual respect to join our team of outstanding professionals.
We offer: Competitive Wages
Health/Life Benefits
Health Savings Account plus Employer Seed
401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
3 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
11 Company Paid Holiday’s
Paid Time Off including Volunteer Time
Vacation Carryover
Tuition Reimbursement
Work-Life Balance
Business Casual Environment
Rewards & Recognition Program
Employee Assistance Program
Office in downtown Greenville that offers free parking, onsite gym, free snacks/drinks (for those working onsite or hybrid) To learn more about Purpose Financial visit Purpose Financial Website. Position Summary The Cloud Database Administrator is responsible for setting the strategy for cloud database management as well as maintaining the current on prem databases and related systems, partners with application development teams and infrastructure operations to ensure that database performance is not hindered and responsible for assisting with the development of future business cases for modernizing and expanding the enterprise’s data lake to improve efficiency and provide stakeholders with consistent and reliable access to key organizational data assets.
Job Responsibility Architect, design, and maintain mission critical database systems.
Set the strategy for the future of cloud as it relates to database management (ex. cloud migrations, new set up in cloud, etc.).
Manage Snowflake ecosystem with a primary focus of supporting Enterprise Snowflake databases and associated tools in the data eco systems. Analyze production workloads and develop strategies to run Snowflake database with scale and efficiency providing cost optimization. Work closely with our scrum teams, helping with database design and with other DevOps engineers in optimizing and managing database operations in the cloud.
Day-to-day operations and management of production database systems in AWS.
Design, deploy and manage upgrades, replication, backup, and recovery.
Leverage coding/scripting to automate tasks and build Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
Implement good practices, monitoring and alerting mechanisms for system health. Job Responsibilities Cont. Work with experts from AWS in supporting existing technologies and adopting new ones.
Be a leader for our data journey, act as SME for data and database related topics, and assist with development of data lakes and warehouses.
Mentor junior engineers and DevOps engineers improving understanding of data operations in the cloud.
Analyze, explain, troubleshoot, optimize, and improve advanced SQL queries. Develop and enforce standards, policies, and procedures for managing databases.
Provides after-hours support for database emergencies, routine scheduled maintenance. Monitor and Ensure database operational stability and make recommendations and execute changes to improve operational stability and operational performance. Education Required Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in any Computer, Engineering, or other technical field. Experience Required 5+ years of experience with at least one RDBMS (PostgreSQL/Oracle).
3+ years of experience with AWS services including RDS, Aurora, Document DB, Lambda, Kafka, and DMS and snowflake.
Expertise in Snowflake advanced concepts like setting up resource monitors, RBAC controls and working closely with teams for cost optimization, Snowflake utilization and Capacity Plan for general housekeeping as well as for peak period.
Hands-on experience with Implementation of CI/CD Processes.
Able to manage Code Repositories like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.
Experience in source Control Management including Bitbucket & GitHub
Programming experience required, preferably Python.
Managing the cloud infrastructure as code, using either Cloud Formation or Terraform.
Experience of authoring CI/CD pipelines, automation elements related to infrastructure composition, deployment orchestration, and monitoring.
Familiarity and experience with Agile/SCRUM based development methodology. Knowledge Required Knowledge of current principles, practices, and techniques used in database administration, Agile software development, DevOps, and continuous integration/continuous delivery methodologies. Able to manage automated build & deployment process along with Rollback mechanisms.
Excellent written and verbal communications skills; adaptability and flexibility to a changing environment; and comfortable working in a dynamic, high volume, fast-paced environment. Ability to understand and ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and laws governing our industry/business and products. Physical Requirements Sitting for long periods of time; standing occasionally; walking; bending; squatting; kneeling; pushing/pulling; reaching; twisting; frequent lifting of less than 10 lbs., occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs.; driving and having access during the workday to an insured and reliable transportation; typing; data entry; grasping; transferring items between hands and/or to another person or receptacle; use of office equipment to include computers; ability to travel to, be physically present at, and complete the physical requirements of the position at any assigned location.
Competencies Customer CommitmentVision-DrivenAction-OrientedPurpose-DrivenTechnical Proficiency/LeadershipOKRTravel 0%-10%
Attire Business Casual
Other Must be eligible to work in the USA and able to pass a background check.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Requisition ID:

45009