Principal & Consulting DBA - Cloud-First Oracle & MySQL

LexisNexis Special Services Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Special Services Inc. seeks a Principal/Consulting DBA to lead strategic database initiatives across cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will design and optimize MySQL and Oracle platforms, drive modernization, and implement secure, cost-effective solutions at scale.

The role emphasizes strong Linux, networking, and automation skills, plus experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and Azure cloud services. Remote US nationwide with competitive compensation.

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.
• Proven experience designing and operating highly available, resilient, enterprise-scale database platforms and leading assessments, modernization programs, cloud migrations, or architecture consulting engagements.
• Strong Linux administration, troubleshooting, and networking knowledge, including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS, virtual networking, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Proven ability to develop, test, and review production-quality code and automation using Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience managing databases in cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure, with Azure managed database services and Azure-native HA/DR experience preferred.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles and hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, including the ability to establish standards for reviewing, testing, and validating AI-generated output.
• Excellent consulting, communication, and technical leadership skills; experience with Kubernetes, team-level AI/agent-driven engineering workflows, and relevant Oracle, MySQL, or Microsoft Azure certifications is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, optimize, and modernize enterprise MySQL and Oracle Database platforms.
• Assess database environments for reliability, performance, security, operational, cost, and modernization opportunities, and define strategic improvement roadmaps.
• Architect and implement replication, clustering, backup/recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Lead migrations from traditional on-premises databases to cloud-native architectures and managed 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 that reduces manual operational work.
• 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 RMAN and Data Guard

Linux administration

Networking basics

Python

Go

Java

C#

PowerShell

Bash

Kubernetes

Education

Oracle/MySQL/Azure certifications preferred

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Azure

GitHub Copilot

Job description

LexisNexis Special Services Inc. seeks a Principal/Consulting DBA to lead strategic database initiatives across cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will design and optimize MySQL and Oracle platforms, drive modernization, and implement secure, cost-effective solutions at scale.

The role emphasizes strong Linux, networking, and automation skills, plus experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and Azure cloud services. Remote US nationwide with competitive compensation.