# Database Administrator

**Company**: LexisNexis Risk Solutions
**Location**: Alpharetta, GA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $95,300 - $158,800
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking candidates with deep production support experience in MySQL replication, database reliability engineering, and cloud-based database platforms.

The Database Administration team provides enterprise-wide support for mission-critical database platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and operational stability.

Responsibilities:

- Manage and optimize MySQL databases in large-scale production environments.

- Design and support highly available, disaster recovery, and multi-region database architectures.

- Perform database upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

- Build automation and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and scripting tools.

- Support cloud-hosted databases in Azure and AWS environments.

- Implement monitoring, observability, incident response, and root cause analysis processes.

- Partner with engineering teams to improve database reliability, CI/CD, and cloud modernization initiatives.

- Participate in on-call rotations and production support.

Requirements:

- Experience as a MySQL DBA, Database Engineer, or Reliability Engineer.

- Expertise in MySQL replication, HA/DR architectures, backup/recovery, security, and performance tuning.

- Experience supporting cloud database platforms in Azure and/or AWS.

- Strong automation skills using Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.

- Experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

- Knowledge of observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Azure Monitor, or CloudWatch.

- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.

- Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, or Oracle is beneficial.

- Knowledge of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, incident management, and post-mortems.

- Experience with cloud modernization, platform engineering, and self-service automation.

- Familiarity with AI-assisted operations and engineering productivity tools.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $95,300 - $158,800.

## Skills

### Required
- MySQL
- database administration
- cloud computing
- automation
- DevOps

### Nice to have
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- Oracle
- Azure
- AWS

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