# 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 a Database Administrator to join our team. As a Database Administrator, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing MySQL databases in large-scale production environments. You will design and support highly available, disaster recovery, and multi-region database architectures. You will perform database upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and capacity planning. You will build automation and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and scripting tools. You will support cloud-hosted databases in Azure and AWS environments. You will implement monitoring, observability, incident response, and root cause analysis processes. You will partner with engineering teams to improve database reliability, CI/CD, and cloud modernization initiatives. You will participate in on-call rotations and production support.

The ideal candidate has experience as a MySQL DBA, Database Engineer, or Reliability Engineer. You have expertise in MySQL replication, HA/DR architectures, backup/recovery, security, and performance tuning. You have experience supporting cloud database platforms in Azure and/or AWS. You have strong automation skills using Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools. You have experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices. You have knowledge of observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Azure Monitor, or CloudWatch. You have strong troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.

The salary range for this position is $95,300 - $158,800 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- MySQL
- database administration
- automation
- Terraform
- Python
- Bash
- Ansible
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- observability
- Grafana
- Datadog
- ELK
- Azure Monitor
- CloudWatch

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

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