DBA Lead: Cloud, HA & Strategy Champion

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. Company; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of production database services. You will design multi-region architectures, enable disaster recovery, and drive automation and IaC practices across Azure/AWS ecosystems.

You will lead a team of DBAs, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and DevOps to ensure secure, compliant, and highly available data platforms for mission-critical applications.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Database Reliability Engineering Own and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of production database services.
• Design and support highly available, multi-region database architectures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Define and support operational reliability standards and best practices.
• Database Administration & Operations Support database management systems and all related software platforms.
• Design, build, and maintain database environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
• Provide technical support and database administration for mission-critical systems.
• Perform database upgrades, maintenance, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning activities.
• Automation & Cloud Enablement Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions.
• Develop automation to eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
• Support CI/CD integration and database deployment modernization.
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve database reliability and deployment processes.
• Drive cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Observability & Incident Response Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in on-call support and incident response activities.
• Lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
• Continuously improve operational readiness and platform resilience.

Skills

Database administration

Leadership

Mentoring

Troubleshooting

Performance tuning

Cloud databases

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/CS or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

Percona XtraBackup

SQL Server / MySQL / PostgreSQL

Azure / AWS database services

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of production database services. You will design multi-region architectures, enable disaster recovery, and drive automation and IaC practices across Azure/AWS ecosystems.

You will lead a team of DBAs, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and DevOps to ensure secure, compliant, and highly available data platforms for mission-critical applications.