Senior Cloud Database Reliability Engineer

RELX INC; Ireland; Remote; EUR 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Dublin, Ireland, is hiring a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms supporting business-critical applications. You will blend reliability engineering with hands-on AWS database expertise across services, driving automation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities include on-call escalation, cross-region failover testing, and mentoring engineers while collaborating with multiple teams

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with managed cloud database services (Aurora MySQL, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, or ElastiCache).
• Strong SQL skills including design, optimization, indexing and troubleshooting.
• Programming/scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and CI/CD for database changes.
• Knowledge of high availability, backup/recovery, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and baseline service levels for critical DB services.
• Design solutions to improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS databases.
• Participate in on-call rotation and act as senior escalation point during incidents.
• Plan and execute cross-region failover testing.
• Automate recovery and operational tasks using IaC and automation scripts.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observable dashboards; contribute to post-mortems.

Skills

Aurora MySQL

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

DynamoDB

SQL optimization

Python scripting

CI/CD practices

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Infrastructure-as-Code

Monitoring/Observability tools

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Dublin, Ireland, is hiring a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms supporting business-critical applications. You will blend reliability engineering with hands-on AWS database expertise across services, driving automation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities include on-call escalation, cross-region failover testing, and mentoring engineers while collaborating with multiple teams