Principal DBA & Cloud Database Architect

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Principal / Consulting DBA to provide strategic and hands-on leadership for mission-critical database platforms in cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will guide modernization, architect resilient solutions, and partner with engineering and security teams to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

You will combine deep MySQL and Oracle expertise with cloud architecture and automation to drive scalable, secure databases across enterprise

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, security, and performance tuning.
• Strong Oracle Database expertise including RMAN, Data Guard, RAC or equivalent HA architectures.
• Experience designing and operating highly available enterprise database platforms, migrations, and architecture consulting.
• Linux administration, networking, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, Bash or similar languages.
• Experience with Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD.
• Azure managed database services and Azure-native HA/DR experience preferred.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles and AI-assisted engineering tools like GitHub Copilot.
• Certifications in Oracle/MySQL/Azure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, optimize, and modernize enterprise MySQL and Oracle databases.
• Assess environments for reliability, performance, security, and modernization.
• Architect replication, clustering, backup/recovery, HA, DR, and BC solutions.
• Lead migrations to cloud-native architectures and managed services.
• Develop and enforce standards for provisioning, deployments, upgrades, monitoring, and security.
• Drive IaC and CI/CD practices with Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions.
• Establish and mature SRE practices, including SLOs and incident response.
• Promote AI-assisted coding standards using GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code.
• Collaborate with engineering, SRE, security, networking to deliver resilient platforms.

Skills

MySQL administration

Oracle Database

Linux administration

Cloud architecture

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Principal / Consulting DBA to provide strategic and hands-on leadership for mission-critical database platforms in cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will guide modernization, architect resilient solutions, and partner with engineering and security teams to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

You will combine deep MySQL and Oracle expertise with cloud architecture and automation to drive scalable, secure databases across enterprise