Senior Cloud Database Reliability Engineer

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Dublin; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SQL

Automation Scripting

Monitoring & Observability

Incident Response

HA/DR Concepts

Tools

Aurora MySQL

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

DynamoDB

ElastiCache

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

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.