Senior Cloud Database Engineer II — Reliability & Automation

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (Europe) Limited Company; Ireland; Remote; EUR 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to drive reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms. You will work across AWS services, implement IaC, and mentor junior engineers while solving complex production challenges.

Based in Ireland (Dublin), you will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to automate operations and improve service resilience in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating managed cloud database services (Aurora MySQL, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, ElastiCache).
• Strong SQL skills: design, optimization, troubleshooting, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience designing monitoring and observability solutions.
• Knowledge of high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Experience in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Experience with IaC (CloudFormation or Terraform) and CI/CD for database changes.
• Experience implementing database security and access governance in production.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and establish baselines for critical database services.
• Improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS databases.
• Participate in on-call rotation and act as senior escalation point.
• Plan and execute failover testing within/between AWS regions.
• Automate recovery using IaC and configuration management.
• Implement automated monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Contribute to post-mortems, RCAs, and mentoring of juniors.

Skills

SQL skills

Python/Bash

Cloud monitoring

Infrastructure-as-Code

On-call/Incident response

CI/CD for DB changes

Tools

Aurora MySQL

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

DynamoDB

ElastiCache

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to drive reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms. You will work across AWS services, implement IaC, and mentor junior engineers while solving complex production challenges.

Based in Ireland (Dublin), you will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to automate operations and improve service resilience in a fast‑paced environment.