# Senior Cloud Database Engineer II

**Company**: LexisNexis Risk Solutions
**Location**: Ireland
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €68,400 - €114,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to join our Database Engineering team. As a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II, you will combine reliability engineering and hands-on cloud database expertise across AWS services, helping to improve service resilience, automate operational processes, and support high-performing production environments.

Responsibilities:

- Create monitoring queries and establish service-level baselines for critical database services

- Design and implement solutions that improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS database platforms

- Participate in on-call rotation to assist in the recovery of major production incidents and act as a senior escalation point

- Plan and execute failover testing within and between AWS regions

- Automate the recovery of systems and components using Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management

- Implement automation and execute code in production environments to reduce manual effort and operational toil

- Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions, including reusable, code-defined dashboards

- Contribute to post-mortems, root cause analyses, reliability engineering documentation, and mentoring of junior engineers

Requirements:

- Hands-on experience operating managed cloud database services such as Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, or Amazon ElastiCache

- Strong SQL skills with experience in database design, optimization, and troubleshooting, including schema design, query tuning, indexing, locks, and performance bottlenecks

- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or a comparable language

- Experience designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions

- Solid understanding of high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts

- Experience participating in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis

- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using CloudFormation or Terraform and CI/CD practices for database change management

- Experience implementing database security, access governance, resiliency patterns, or supporting high-availability production environments

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- cloud database
- reliability engineering
- SQL
- Python
- Bash
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- CloudFormation
- Terraform
- CI/CD

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