Senior DBA -1 (Database Reliability Engineer)
LexisNexis Risk Solutions3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$72k - $119k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, administer, and optimize secure, scalable, and highly available enterprise MySQL database platforms.
- Engineer and maintain replication, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and recovery-testing solutions.
- Develop production-quality code and automation for database provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Build and maintain Terraform Infrastructure as Code delivered through GitHub and GitHub Actions pipelines.
- Define and track SLOs and implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for database health and performance.
- Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, blameless postmortems, and preventative automation.
- Use GitHub Copilot tools to support coding, troubleshooting, testing, and documentation while validating generated output.
- Troubleshoot issues across databases, Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
- Partner with application teams on schema design, query performance, capacity planning, and safe database changes.
- Lead database modernization and migration initiatives toward cloud-native architectures and managed services.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance tuning.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills across databases, infrastructure, networking, and cloud environments.
- Ability to develop, test, and maintain production-quality automation using Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
- Hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience, along with Git workflows, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience managing databases in cloud environments; Microsoft Azure experience is preferred.
- Working knowledge of SRE practices including SLOs, observability, incident management, postmortems, and operational automation.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, or Copilot in VS Code, including reviewing and validating AI-generated output.
- Strong networking fundamentals including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS, and virtual networking.
- Experience supporting databases on virtual machines or Kubernetes is preferred.
- Experience building AI-assisted or agent-driven automation workflows is preferred.
Benefits
- Eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
- Country-specific benefits are available based on work location.
- Application deadline is January 22, 2027.
- The employer provides an accessible hiring process and accommodation support.
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis Risk Solutions builds data and analytics products for businesses and governments to assess risk, prevent fraud, verify identities, and meet compliance. It sells APIs, decisioning platforms, and curated data sets used across insurance, financial services, healthcare, and public safety. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, it operates as part of RELX, providing industry-specific solutions such as insurance risk scores and digital identity intelligence.