Senior Cloud Database Engineer

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Dublin; Sur place; EUR 100 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Ireland seeks a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms supporting business-critical and customer-facing applications.

You will combine reliability engineering with hands-on cloud database expertise across AWS services, helping to improve resilience, automate operations, and support production environments.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills with experience in database design and query tuning.
• Experience automating operations using Python or Bash.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting.
• Background in high availability, backup, recovery, and DR practices.
• On-call rotation experience and incident response exposure.

Responsabilités

• Create monitoring queries and baselines for critical database services.
• Improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS databases.
• Participate in on-call rotations and act as escalation point.
• Plan and execute cross-region failover testing.
• Automate recovery and operational tasks using IaC and config management.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and observability tooling.
• Contribute to post-mortems and reliability documentation; mentor juniors.

Connaissances

SQL

Automation Scripting

Monitoring & Observability

Incident Response

HA/DR Concepts

Outils

Aurora MySQL

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

DynamoDB

ElastiCache

CloudFormation

Terraform

Description du poste

Are you passionate about building highly available, scalable cloud database platforms that power business-critical and customer-facing applications?

Do you enjoy solving complex reliability challenges, automating operations, and mentoring others while driving improvements across modern AWS database environments?

About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/

About the Role

The Database Engineering team is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to help ensure the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms supporting business-critical and customer-facing applications. In this role, you will combine reliability engineering and hands-on cloud database expertise across AWS services, helping to improve service resilience, automate operational processes, and support high-performing production environments. You will also collaborate across engineering teams and provide guidance to colleagues while contributing to operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and establish service-level baselines for critical database services
• Design and implement solutions that improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS database platforms
• Participate in on-call rotation to assist in the recovery of major production incidents and act as a senior escalation point
• Plan and execute failover testing within and between AWS regions
• Automate the recovery of systems and components using Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management
• Implement automation and execute code in production environments to reduce manual effort and operational toil
• Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions, including reusable, code-defined dashboards
• Contribute to post-mortems, root cause analyses, reliability engineering documentation, and mentoring of junior engineers

Requirements

• Hands-on experience operating managed cloud database services such as Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, or Amazon ElastiCache
• Strong SQL skills with experience in database design, optimization, and troubleshooting, including schema design, query tuning, indexing, locks, and performance bottlenecks
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or a comparable language
• Experience designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions
• Solid understanding of high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts
• Experience participating in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using CloudFormation or Terraform and CI/CD practices for database change management
• Experience implementing database security, access governance, resiliency patterns, or supporting high-availability production environments

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here