Senior Cloud DB Engineer II - AWS Reliability & Automation

LexisNexis Special Services Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Ireland (Dublin) seeks a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms powering business-critical applications. You will work across AWS services, improve resilience, and help automate operations.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, design scalable DB architectures, and mentor junior staff while contributing to operational excellence and on-call incident response.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating managed cloud database services (Aurora MySQL, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, ElastiCache).
• Strong SQL skills including schema design, query tuning, indexing, and troubleshooting.
• Scripting/automation using Python or Bash.
• Experience designing monitoring/observability solutions.
• IaC with CloudFormation or Terraform and CI/CD for DB changes.
• Understanding of high availability, backup, restore, DR concepts.
• On-call rotation, incident response, RCA experience.
• DB security, access governance, resiliency patterns.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and baselines for critical database services.
• Improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS DB platforms.
• Participate in on-call rotation and act as senior escalation point.
• Plan and execute cross-region failover testing.
• Automate recovery via IaC and configuration management.
• Develop automation to reduce manual operational toil in production.
• Design/maintain monitoring dashboards and observability tooling.
• Contribute to post-mortems, RCA docs, and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Cloud database management

SQL optimization

Python Bash scripting

Monitoring & observability

Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Ireland (Dublin) seeks a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms powering business-critical applications. You will work across AWS services, improve resilience, and help automate operations.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, design scalable DB architectures, and mentor junior staff while contributing to operational excellence and on-call incident response.