Database Engineer (DBA)

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.