Principal & Consulting DBA — Cloud, HA & Automation

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Principal/Consulting DBA to provide hands-on leadership for mission-critical database platforms across cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will guide modernization, architect resilient solutions, and combine MySQL/Oracle expertise with cloud architecture and automation to deliver reliable, scalable platforms.

You will collaborate with engineering, SRE, security, and infrastructure teams while mentoring engineers and driving architecture reviews,

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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a principal technical consultant, designing, administering, optimizing, and modernizing enterprise MySQL and Oracle Database platforms.
• Assess database environments for reliability, performance, security, and modernization opportunities, and define strategic improvement roadmaps.
• Architect and implement replication, clustering, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Lead migrations from on-premises database platforms to cloud-native architectures and managed services.
• Drive infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices using Terraform, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• Establish and mature SRE practices, including SLOs, observability, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

Skills

MySQL admin

Oracle DB

Linux admin

Python

Go

Java

PowerShell

Bash

Cloud architecture

SRE principles

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Principal/Consulting DBA to provide hands-on leadership for mission-critical database platforms across cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will guide modernization, architect resilient solutions, and combine MySQL/Oracle expertise with cloud architecture and automation to deliver reliable, scalable platforms.

You will collaborate with engineering, SRE, security, and infrastructure teams while mentoring engineers and driving architecture reviews,