Senior DBA & Reliability Engineer — MySQL + Cloud

Talent Octopusventures; City Of London; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is hiring a MySQL DBA/Database Engineer to manage large-scale production MySQL environments, design highly available architectures, and drive performance improvements across Azure and AWS.

This role combines traditional database administration with modern DevOps, automation, and cloud modernization, requiring strong scripting, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability skills, plus on-call production support.

Qualifications

• MySQL DBA/Database Engineer or Reliability Engineer role experience.
• Expertise in MySQL replication, HA/DR, backup/recovery, security and performance tuning.
• Experience with Azure and AWS cloud database platforms.
• Strong automation skills using Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform or similar.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch).
• Familiarity with SRE principles and cloud modernization is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize MySQL databases in large-scale production environments.
• Design and support highly available, DR and multi-region architectures.
• Perform upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, and capacity planning.
• Build automation and IaC solutions using Terraform and scripting tools.
• Support cloud-hosted databases in Azure and AWS environments.
• Implement monitoring, observability, incident response, and RCA processes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability and CI/CD.

Skills

MySQL replication

HA/DR architectures

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Automation (Python/Bash/Ansible/Terra​

CI/CD / GitHub Actions

Observability tools (Grafana/Datadog/…

Tools

Terraform

Python

Bash

Ansible

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

CloudWatch

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is hiring a MySQL DBA/Database Engineer to manage large-scale production MySQL environments, design highly available architectures, and drive performance improvements across Azure and AWS.

This role combines traditional database administration with modern DevOps, automation, and cloud modernization, requiring strong scripting, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability skills, plus on-call production support.