# Senior Database Administrator

**Company**: LexisNexis Risk Solutions
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,400 - $192,300
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead our Database Administration team, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and operational stability of our mission-critical database platforms.

Responsibilities:

- Ensure maintenance, stability, and operational health of all databases and related technologies

- Mitigate customer-impacting issues and support product and infrastructure releases

- Provide strategic direction for hosted database architectures and assess the impact of hosted product requirements

- Lead research into new or alternative technologies and recommend upgrades or changes to database infrastructure

- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Database Administrators

Requirements:

- 7+ years of database administration experience

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

- Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing technical teams

- Strong understanding of database infrastructure, administration, maintenance, design, and related technologies

- Proven ability to troubleshoot database connectivity, infrastructure, and performance issues

Technical Skills:

- MySQL DBA or Database Engineering experience

- Strong experience with MySQL replication design, implementation, and support

- Experience with High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architectures

- Extensive experience with backup and recovery technologies

- Experience performing MySQL patching, upgrades, and major version migrations

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($115,400 - $192,300)

- Annual incentive bonus

- Country-specific benefits

## Skills

### Required
- MySQL
- Database Administration
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Performance Tuning

### Nice to have
- Microsoft SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Oracle
- Cloud-native architecture principles

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