<div><strong>Is God calling you to ministry?<br></strong><br></div><div>For over 70 years, The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has proclaimed the Gospel through its various ministries. Whether you work at our headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove (BGTC) in Asheville, North Carolina, Blue Ridge Broadcasting (BRB) in Asheville, North Carolina or a field office abroad, you are part of a team of committed Christians working together to reach people to the ends of the earth with the Gospel.<br><br></div><div><strong><br>CHRISTIAN PURPOSE AND EXPECTATIONS:<br></strong><br></div><div>All employees proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ through their employment, and thereby further BGEA’s religious mission.<br><br></div><div><strong>Department Detail –</strong> The BGEA Information Technology (IT) department consists of the following areas: Operations (networking/routing, servers, storage, security cameras, telephony), Service Desk (end-user hardware and software management/support, event support, general IT assistance), Cybersecurity (threat defense, monitoring/analysis, awareness, and compliance), Enterprise Solutions (application and web development, data visualization, report writing, database management), and Enterprise Solutions Support (Donor/CRM, Financial, HR, and other ERP type solutions support).&nbsp; The IT department furthers the mission of BGEA through supporting, developing, scaling, and securing the assets, infrastructure, and programs required by all areas of the ministry while maintaining and ensuring their availability.<br><br></div><div><strong>Job Summary –</strong> The Senior Database Administrator architects, engineers, secures, automates, and optimizes BGEA’s enterprise data platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. The Senior DBA serves as the technical authority for relational database systems, high availability architecture, disaster recovery, data security, and database lifecycle management.<br><br></div><div><br>Ministry Requirements<br><br></div><ul><li>Maintains a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ</li><li>Faithfully upholds BGEA in prayer</li><li>Participates in daily BGEA staff devotions including Bible reading, and leading group prayer as schedule permits</li><li>Demonstrates behavior aligned with BGEA’s Mission Statement, Statement of Faith, Hallmarks, policies, and expectations</li><li>Effectively represents Jesus Christ to those within both personal and professional spheres of influence</li></ul><div><br>Essential Duties and Responsibilities<br><br></div><ul><li>Architects, deploys, and manages relational database platforms including Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-hosted environments</li><li>Leads complex database migrations, version upgrades, and platform modernization efforts</li><li>Creates necessary ODBC, SSRS, etc. connections and assists IT development teams with connections to new instances.</li><li>Designs and enforces database performance standards including indexing strategy, query optimization,</li><li>Develops and maintains a multi-year enterprise database roadmap including capacity planning, lifecycle management,</li><li>Implements proactive performance monitoring, observability, and automated alerting using enterprise monitoring platforms.</li><li>Partners with development teams to review schema design, data models, and deployment pipelines to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.</li><li>Monitors and maintains security of BGEA databases by considering access requests and granting specific, appropriate permission to users</li><li>Monitors database activity and performance utilizing pertinent ministry-provided database analysis tools</li><li>Designs and tests enterprise-grade High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies including Always On Availability Groups, replication, failover clustering, and geo-redundant backup strategies. Conducts regular failover and restoration testing.</li><li>Ensures timely, efficient database restoration in the event of system failure</li><li>Assists in daily Information Technology (IT) operations including, but not limited to diagnosis of problems and completing regularly scheduled activities</li><li>Automates operational database tasks using PowerShell, T-SQL, Infrastructure-as-Code, and configuration management tooling to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability.</li><li>Serves as advisor to management regarding technical direction</li><li>Reviews ministry technology requests or database requirements making recommendations and developing quotes where needed.</li><li>Provides architectural oversight for third-party and SaaS integrations, ensuring secure and performant data exchange patterns (APIs, replication, ETL).</li></ul><div><br>Marginal Duties and Responsibilities<br><br></div><ul><li>Researches and evaluates emerging database technologies, automation tooling, and data platform innovations. Provides benchmark data and strategic recommendations.</li><li>Other duties as assigned</li></ul><div><br>Job Specifications<br><br></div><div><strong><br>Skills and Knowledge<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field OR 10+ years of enterprise database engineering experience.</li><li>Minimum of 8 years’ experience working within an MS SQL environment, with a strong command of MS T-SQL language</li><li>Proven proficiency within current supported versions of MySQL and MSSQL</li><li>Proven ability to understand and work with database analysis tools such as SSMS, SQL Diagnostic Manager, PMM, etc</li><li>Proficiency in working with automation frameworks (PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)</li><li>Solid understanding of HA and DR architecture for enterprise database systems</li><li>Proven ability and desire to support and monitor IT software and hardware standard compliancy</li><li>Proven knowledge of client/server architecture</li><li>Strong initiative with ability to work independently relative to assigned priorities</li><li>Strong relational, verbal, and written communications skills, with ability to understandably communicate the “large picture” to a wide range of audiences</li><li>Good comprehension and listening skills, with ability to resolve business challenges</li><li>Proven understanding of MS Office and Windows OS</li></ul><div><strong><br>Physical/Mental Demands<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Ability to maintain confidentiality</li><li>Flexibility and initiative to adapt to changing circumstances</li><li>Willingness to remain accessible by cell phone/pager</li><li>Strong ability to see projects through to completion</li><li>Ability to deal simultaneously with multiple tasks and projects</li><li>Ability to work productively despite frequent interruptions</li><li>Ability and desire to contribute substantially in a progressive IT environment</li><li>Excellent organizational ability to effectively prioritize tasks</li><li>Consistently high level of integrity and professionalism</li></ul><div><strong><br>Working Conditions<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Conventional office and IT environment</li></ul>

Senior Database Administrator

<div><strong>About Subsplash</strong></div><div>Subsplash is an exciting, award-winning team of 290+ mission-driven people who are committed to our core values of humility, innovation, and excellence. Founded in 2005, we’ve remained family owned and operated while pioneering the market with the first ever church mobile app. Since then, we’ve been working together to build The Ultimate Engagement Platform™ for churches, Christian ministries, non-profits, and businesses around the world. We find excitement in serving our 17,000+ clients, creating impactful products, and delighting the 40 million real people who use our platform every day. Subsplash has won awards for best mobile experience, been voted top 100 Washington's Best Workplaces by the Puget Sound Business Journal, created some of the most downloaded apps of all time, and built enterprise software for world-class brands like XBOX, Microsoft, Samsung, Expedia, and Cisco; yet, at the end of the day, we love making a lasting impact and a difference in our world.</div><div><br>Working at Subsplash is more than just a job; we are a team of people who are courageous, inventive, and passionate about doing meaningful work every day. Don’t take our word for it—head to<a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Subsplash-EI_IE949698.11,20.htm"> Glassdoor</a> and see for yourself!</div><div><br><strong>About the Team&nbsp;</strong></div><div>The Subsplash Product &amp; Engineering Team is responsible for all products that the company develops including the App Platform and Merchant Services. We are a team of designers, developers, and coordinators, creating polished experiences for our clients and end users. The P&amp;E Team is responsible for the entire user experience including: End-User Mobile Apps, the Subsplash Dashboard (our Content Management System), Subsplash Giving (Our Donation and Merchant Services Platform), Media services, the Web App, backend data feeds, analytics, and more. The Product Team supports our Clients by providing a unified set of tools to help reduce administrative overhead so Clients can focus on their core mission and expand their reach.</div><div><br><strong>About the Role</strong></div><div>As a Security Engineer II, you will report to the Sr. Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering and join a team of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) and Data Engineers. You treat security concerns as first-class citizens and will prioritize industry best practices. You will work closely with Software Engineers and product team members to help them embed security tools and practices across all teams and phases of the software development lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with SREs, software architecture, IT and other roles to measure and report on cloud systems security compliance. You recognize the importance of stability, scalability, and uptime, with a critical focus on the security of our software systems and infrastructure. You enjoy helping colleagues identify important security vulnerabilities and supporting them to contribute meaningful improvements to the Subsplash products and platform.</div><div><br><strong>Your Priorities</strong></div><ul><li>Drive for and enable proactive identification, analysis, and remediation of security vulnerabilities in our software codebases and cloud infrastructure systems</li><li>Respond to manage our pen testing and bug bounty programs</li><li>Focus on selecting, integrating, and operating apps and tools that multiply individual efforts by automating preventative strategies, to help drive down manual, reactive tasks&nbsp;</li><li>Work in partnership with Software Architecture, Risk/Compliance, the SRE team, and other partners, to integrate security capabilities into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).</li><li>Participate in security reviews, threat modeling, and security improvement workshops</li><li>Promote awareness of, and adherence to, secure coding best practices and standards</li><li>Influence the strategy and implementation of security solutions, advocating for DevSecOps principles and identifying effective and efficient security guardrails</li><li>Prioritize secure, scalable, observable code and infrastructure with a bias towards continuous improvement</li><li>Design, develop, integrate, and maintain our core security tooling (e.g. SAST/DAST, SCA, etc.), driving adoption and iteration to provide clear value to engineering teams</li><li>Maintain great communication with engineers and colleagues to help bridge the gap between compliance requirements and security solution implementation and iteration</li><li>Participate in the team’s on-call rotation as needed, acting as the primary security subject matter expert for high-severity or escalated security incidents</li><li>Partner with the IT team to provide security consultation and technical expertise with ad hoc projects and requests</li><li>Act as the primary technical subject matter expert for the cybersecurity remediation project, working in lockstep with the SRE Manager and SRE team to implement solutions and track progress toward successful, timely completion.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Compensation</strong></div><div>The total compensation for this role will be between $140,000 - $175,000/yr.</div><div><br></div><h3><strong>Required Education + Experience</strong></h3><ul><li>At least 3 to 5 years of full-time experience in a security engineering or similar role in a group/team environment</li><li>Familiarity with common web application and network security concepts, threats, and vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10)</li><li>Experience with security best practices across different technology stacks (e.g., server-side, client-side, mobile)</li><li>Proven ability to design and implement secure architectures in a cloud-native environment, including experience conducting threat modeling and security design reviews</li><li>Embracing the Agile and feature-driven development processes</li></ul><div><br></div><h3><strong>Desired Skills + Experience</strong></h3><ul><li>Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience</li><li>Experience with security features and tools available from cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP</li><li>Experience with security testing tools (e.g., SAST, DAST, penetration testing tools)</li><li>Experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)</li><li>Knowledge of data security best practices related to PCI/DSS, HIPAA, or other compliance standards</li><li>Understanding of AI security best practices and prompt injection prevention and identification</li><li>Familiar with common security frameworks and standards (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2)</li><li>Experience with REST API microservice architecture, securing container runtimes, Kubernetes, and related cloud-native workload security principles and practices</li><li>Familiar with good security engineering principles such as: least privilege, defense-in-depth, security automation, etc.</li><li>Experience identifying and protecting against security risks such as XSS, SQL Injection, SSRF, insecure direct object references, and session hijacking.</li><li>Experience in developing secure codebases using Git or similar version control systems</li><li>Working understanding of OAuth2, OIDC, and other authentication/authorization protocols</li><li>Knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, LEAN, and SOLID principles as they relate to security</li></ul><div><br><strong>You are…</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Passionate: </strong>You demonstrate our core values of Humility, Innovation, and Excellence</li><li><strong>Trustworthy: </strong>You understand the importance of confidentiality with sensitive information</li><li><strong>Organized:</strong> You naturally have the ability to prioritize multiple projects and tasks</li><li><strong>A Communicator:&nbsp; </strong>You have a knack for clear and concise communication&nbsp;</li><li><strong>A Driver:</strong> You are smart, persistent, and not easily blocked</li><li><strong>A Learner:</strong> You are committed to growing and staying current with new technologies</li></ul><div><br><strong>Location</strong></div><div>Subsplash currently has operations in 27 states across the US! As much as we would love to have employees in as many states and countries as we have clients, we are currently limiting hiring to the states we already operate in. As a result of that,<strong> this role is only available as a 100% remote position if you reside in one of the following states:&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br>AL, AR, AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IA, IN, KS, KY, MO, MI, MN, NC, NM, OK, OH, OR, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WY.</div><div><br>Unfortunately, if you do not <strong>currently</strong> reside in one of these states, we are unable to consider your application.</div><div><br><strong>Benefits</strong></div><div>Generous Paid Time Off (Accrual rate of 15 days for the first year and then 20 vacation days per year beginning on your 1 year anniversary), Medical Coverage, Dental Coverage, Vision Coverage, short and long term disability and life insurance all free of charge, Competitive Compensation, 401k Matching, Professional Development, Top of the Line Equipment, Referral Program, Parental Leave, Family-Friendly Culture, and the chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech</div><div><br><em>This position is classified as Full-time/Exempt. Primary position hours are 7:30 am to 4:30 pm Mon-Fri.</em></div>

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