Senior Cloud Database Engineer – AWS, Automation & Scale

Advance America, Cash Advance Centers, Inc.; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Wages

401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match

Company Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Business Casual Environment

Rewards & Recognition Program

Employee Assistance Program

Office in downtown Greenville withfree

Job summary

Purpose Financial, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Cloud Database Engineer to own cloud-native database platforms, primarily AWS, and drive automation and platform standards.

This hands-on senior IC role focuses on scale, reliability, and collaboration with engineering teams across the firm. A seasoned professional with deep database and cloud operations experience is essential.

Located in downtown Greenville, the role offers a growth-driven environment and a strong emphasis on data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Manage data infrastructure day-to-day operations, data processing, storage, and accessibility.
• Oversee design, deployment and management of AWS infrastructure and services (RDS Oracle, Aurora PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, Lambda, Kafka, DMS, EC2).
• Drive infrastructure as code (IaC) with AWS CloudFormation; automate deployment, scaling, and management of cloud resources; integrate CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure backups for critical AWS services and disaster recovery readiness.
• Monitor, tune and optimize cloud services to meet workloads and performance goals.
• Maintain documentation of the AWS environment and provide status reports to management.
• Migrate applications to AWS and Snowflake; collaborate across teams on migrations.
• Participate in Change Management and Root Cause Analysis meetings.

Job description

Purpose Financial, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Cloud Database Engineer to own cloud-native database platforms, primarily AWS, and drive automation and platform standards.

This hands-on senior IC role focuses on scale, reliability, and collaboration with engineering teams across the firm. A seasoned professional with deep database and cloud operations experience is essential.

Located in downtown Greenville, the role offers a growth-driven environment and a strong emphasis on data-driven decision making.