Sr. Cloud Database Engineer

Purpose Financial•Greenville, SC

About The Position

Purpose Financial is hiring a Sr. Cloud Database Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of cloud-native database platforms, primarily on AWS. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on designing for scale and reliability, driving automation, and establishing platform standards used by engineering teams across the company. The role requires someone capable of identifying what needs to be built, making sound technical decisions, and delivering with limited direction. The engineer will manage and maintain data infrastructure, including data processing, storage, and accessibility. The position also supports application migrations from on-premises data centers to AWS and Snowflake, develops operational measures for data and cloud health, and helps foster data-driven decision-making, collaboration, and accountability. The role may require technical support outside normal working hours, including weekends and holidays, and involves 25% quarterly travel to Homebase.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.
At least 8 years of experience in database administration, cloud administration, and DevOps.
Strong understanding of database fundamentals and operations.
Strong technical expertise in data management technologies, relational databases, data warehousing solutions, ETL tools, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Snowflake, and Kafka.
Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, and DocumentDB database optimization.
Experience automating performance-enhancing jobs and data archiving.
Experience with database security concepts and technologies, including role-based access controls, encryption, auditing, and threat/vulnerability management.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, adaptability and flexibility in a changing environment, and comfort working in a dynamic, high-volume, fast-paced environment.
Ability to understand and ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and laws governing the company’s industry, business, and products.
Ability to travel to and be physically present at assigned locations; access to insured, reliable transportation during the workday.
Ability to meet the listed physical requirements, including prolonged sitting, occasional standing and walking, bending, squatting, kneeling, pushing/pulling, reaching, twisting, frequent lifting of less than 10 lbs., and occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs.

Nice To Haves

AWS or database certifications.
Experience managing technology operations in a cloud environment, particularly AWS and Snowflake.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, manage, and monitor AWS infrastructure and services, including RDS Oracle, Aurora PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, Lambda, Kafka, DMS, and EC2.
Ensure cloud environments are available, reliable, scalable, performant, and cost-efficient; perform capacity planning and implement autoscaling policies.
Drive infrastructure-as-code adoption using tools such as AWS CloudFormation and automate deployment, scaling, and management of cloud resources.
Integrate CI/CD pipelines for Landing Zone Accelerator software releases.
Configure backups for critical AWS services, such as RDS and EBS snapshots, to meet business continuity requirements.
Monitor and tune cloud service performance to meet application and workload requirements and maintain stable performance for mission-critical enterprise systems.
Maintain AWS environment documentation, including architecture diagrams and operating procedures, and provide management with status reports on performance, incidents, and operational work.
Develop key performance indicators for data operations, implementations, and cloud environment health.
Collaborate with Infrastructure, Network, Integration, and Security teams to migrate clinical and business applications from on-premises data centers to AWS and Snowflake.
Build a Cloud Operations Center of Excellence training curriculum and certification matrix based on job level.
Participate in Change Management and Root Cause Analysis meetings as directed.
Provide technical support outside regular hours, including weekends and holidays, when called upon.
Promote data-driven decision-making, collaboration, and accountability across the organization.
Generate reports and analyze systems for query slowness.
Develop scripts for performance improvements and data fixes.
Set up database design and monitoring reports and alerts.
Participate in technical discussions with development and system DBA teams concerning deployments and code reviews.