Principal Cloud DBA & Automation Architect

LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. Company; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Principal / Consulting DBA to lead mission-critical database platforms across cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will combine MySQL and Oracle Database expertise with cloud architecture, automation, and consulting skills to drive reliability, scalability, and security across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities include design, admin, optimization, and modernization, with migrations to cloud-native architectures, IaC, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, security, and performance tuning.
• Strong hands-on Oracle Database expertise, including RMAN, Data Guard, RAC or equivalent HA architectures, backup and recovery, tuning, security, and upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, optimize, and modernize enterprise MySQL and Oracle Database platforms.
• Assess database environments for reliability, performance, security, operational, cost, and modernization opportunities.
• Architect and implement replication, clustering, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Lead migrations from traditional and on-premises database platforms to cloud-native architectures and managed database services.
• Develop, review, and establish standards for production-quality code and automation covering provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, monitoring, compliance, maintenance, and operations.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices using Terraform, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• Establish and mature SRE practices, including SLOs, observability, incident response, blameless postmortems, reliability engineering, and automation.
• Lead adoption of GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, and Copilot in VS Code, establishing standards for AI-assisted coding, troubleshooting, testing, review, and security.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, security, networking, and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient and cost-effective platforms while mentoring engineers and providing technical direction through architecture reviews, documentation, and stakeholder communication.

Skills

MySQL administration

Oracle Database

Linux administration

Programming languages (Python/Go/Java/

PowerShell/Bash

Terraform & IaC

GitHub & CI/CD

Azure cloud

SRE principles

AI-assisted engineering tools

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Principal / Consulting DBA to lead mission-critical database platforms across cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will combine MySQL and Oracle Database expertise with cloud architecture, automation, and consulting skills to drive reliability, scalability, and security across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities include design, admin, optimization, and modernization, with migrations to cloud-native architectures, IaC, and CI/CD practices.