Cloud Database Admin

Address: 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.