Senior Cloud Database Reliability Engineer II

RELX International; Dublin; Remote; EUR 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Ireland is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to strengthen reliability and scalability of cloud data platforms for business-critical apps. You will combine reliability engineering with hands-on cloud DB expertise across AWS services and mentor peers.

Responsibilities include automation, monitoring, and improving availability while collaborating with engineering teams to raise production resilience and drive operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Hands-on with managed cloud DB services (Aurora MySQL, RDS, Redshift, ElastiCache).
• Strong SQL, database design, tuning, and troubleshooting skills.
• Scripting and automation proficiency with Python or Bash.

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 cross-region failover testing.
• Automate recovery using IaC and configuration management.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability with code-defined dashboards.
• Contribute to post-mortems and root cause analyses; mentor juniors.

Skills

SQL

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Monitoring & Observability

High Availability concepts

Incident Response

CI/CD

IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform)

Database Security

On-Call Experience

Tools

Aurora MySQL

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

Amazon ElastiCache

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Ireland is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to strengthen reliability and scalability of cloud data platforms for business-critical apps. You will combine reliability engineering with hands-on cloud DB expertise across AWS services and mentor peers.

Responsibilities include automation, monitoring, and improving availability while collaborating with engineering teams to raise production resilience and drive operational excellence.