# Database Engineer (DBA)

**Company**: LexisNexis Risk Solutions
**Location**: Remote - USA - Nationwide
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $71,600 - $119,400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Engineer (DBA) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical database platforms in a cloud-first environment.

The Database Engineering team is focused on building and supporting secure, scalable, and highly available database platforms in a cloud-first environment. As a Database Engineer (DBA), you will work closely with software engineering, SRE, networking, and infrastructure teams to modernize database environments, improve operational efficiency, and support resilient cloud-native solutions.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, administer, and optimize enterprise MySQL database platforms, including secure, scalable, and highly available architectures.

- Engineer and maintain replication, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions, including regular recovery testing.

- Develop production-quality code and automation for database provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and monitoring.

- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with changes delivered through GitHub and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.

- Define and track SLOs and implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards to provide visibility into database health and performance.

- Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, and blameless postmortems while implementing preventative solutions and self-service automation.

- Troubleshoot complex issues across databases, Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure, while partnering with application teams on schema design, query performance, capacity planning, and safe database changes.

- Lead database modernization initiatives, including migrations from traditional platforms to 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.

- Proven ability to develop, test, and maintain production-quality code and automation using Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.

- Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, 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 reducing manual operational work through automation.

- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, or Copilot in VS Code, including the ability to review and validate AI-generated output.

- Strong networking fundamentals, including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS, and virtual networking.

**Benefits**

- U.S. National Base Pay Range: $71,600 - $119,400

- Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

- Eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

- Country-specific benefits available.

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## Skills

### Required
- MySQL
- Linux
- Terraform
- GitHub
- Python
- Go
- Java
- C#
- PowerShell
- Bash
- SRE practices
- Networking fundamentals

### Nice to have
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
- AI-assisted engineering tools

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