Senior Cloud DB Engineer II - Reliability & Automation

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Dublin; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms supporting critical apps. You will blend reliability engineering with hands-on AWS database expertise across services like Aurora MySQL, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB and ElastiCache.

You will lead automation efforts, participate in on-call rotations, plan cross-region failover, and mentor junior engineers while driving operational excellence

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills for design, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on with cloud database services on AWS.
• Experience with scripting and automation.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and establish baselines for database services.
• Improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS databases.
• Participate in on-call rotations and act as senior escalation point.
• Plan and execute cross-region failover testing.
• Automate recovery using IaC and configuration management.
• Implement automation to reduce manual toil in production.
• Design and maintain dashboards and observability tooling.
• Contribute to post-mortems and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Strong SQL skills

Python scripting

Bash scripting

CI/CD knowledge

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Aurora MySQL

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon ElastiCache

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms supporting critical apps. You will blend reliability engineering with hands-on AWS database expertise across services like Aurora MySQL, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB and ElastiCache.

You will lead automation efforts, participate in on-call rotations, plan cross-region failover, and mentor junior engineers while driving operational excellence