Cloud-First Database Reliability Engineer (Senior MySQL)

Talent Octopusventures; United States; Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Engineer (DBA) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical database platforms in a cloud-first environment. This is a hands-on role that blends deep database expertise with infrastructure automation and software development practices.

You will partner with software, SRE, networking, and infrastructure teams to modernize database environments, improve reliability, and deliver secure, scalable cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, and recovery.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience writing production-grade automation code (Python/Go/Java/C#/PowerShell/Bash).

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and optimize MySQL database platforms.
• Develop automation for provisioning, deployments, upgrades, and monitoring.
• Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and GitHub CI/CD.
• Define and track SLOs with monitoring dashboards.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to modernize databases.

Skills

MySQL administration

Linux

Python

Go

Java

C#

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Engineer (DBA) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical database platforms in a cloud-first environment. This is a hands-on role that blends deep database expertise with infrastructure automation and software development practices.

You will partner with software, SRE, networking, and infrastructure teams to modernize database environments, improve reliability, and deliver secure, scalable cloud-native solutions.