DBA Lead: Cloud-Driven Database Reliability

RELX International; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions leads a global team responsible for enterprise-grade database platforms, ensuring availability, performance, and security across MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle in hybrid environments.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategy, and mentorship, guiding database design, upgrades, and incident response while collaborating with engineering, security, and DevOps teams to deliver resilient data services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of database administration experience.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the maintenance, stability, and operational health of all databases and related technologies.
• Mitigate customer-impacting issues and support product and infrastructure releases according to development plans and schedules.
• Provide strategic direction for hosted database architectures and assess the impact of hosted product requirements.
• Lead research into new or alternative technologies and recommend upgrades or changes to database infrastructure.
• Review, implement, and sign off on enhancements, upgrades, and changes to systems, procedures, and back-office infrastructure environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Database Administrators on complex database design, infrastructure, and maintenance topics.
• Engage with Technical Architects and senior Development team members to provide technical designs and guidance to the Database Operations team.
• Take responsibility for the implications and impact of technical design decisions.
• Resolve performance issues and support root cause resolution.
• Perform thorough impact analysis for assigned database infrastructure activities and understand their effect on business operations.
• Respond to issues and support calls in accordance with relevant procedures, including security requirements.
• Install, upgrade, test, and monitor new database infrastructure and equipment.
• Monitor database operations and support maintenance activities efficiently to minimize issues and incidents.
• Ensure clear and timely communication with the line manager and relevant stakeholders regarding progress, issues, and risks.

Skills

Database administration

Mentoring teams

Problem solving

Cloud databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/CS

Tools

MySQL

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Azure

AWS

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions leads a global team responsible for enterprise-grade database platforms, ensuring availability, performance, and security across MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle in hybrid environments.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategy, and mentorship, guiding database design, upgrades, and incident response while collaborating with engineering, security, and DevOps teams to deliver resilient data services.