Remote Database Reliability Engineer (MySQL, Cloud‑Native)

Brightmine; United States; Remote; USD 72,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (Senior DBA) to design, build, and operate mission-critical MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment. This hands-on role collaborates with SRE, software, networking, and infra teams to modernize databases, automate operations, and improve reliability and performance.

You will implement replication, backups, DR, and high availability, write production-grade automation, define SLOs, monitor the health of databases, and lead

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance tuning.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills across databases, infrastructure, networking, and cloud environments.
• Proven ability to develop, test, and maintain production-quality code and automation using Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, Bash.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, along with Git workflows, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise MySQL database platforms, including secure, scalable, and highly available architectures.
• Engineer and maintain replication, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions, including regular recovery testing.
• Develop production-quality code and automation for database provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and monitoring.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with changes delivered through GitHub and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and track SLOs and implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards to provide visibility into database health and performance.
• Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, and blameless postmortems while implementing preventative solutions and self-service automation.
• Use GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, and Copilot in VS Code to support coding, troubleshooting, testing, and documentation, while reviewing and validating AI-generated output.

Skills

MySQL administration

Linux

Python

Go

Java

C#

PowerShell

Bash

Kubernetes

SRE practices

Cloud databases

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (Senior DBA) to design, build, and operate mission-critical MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment. This hands-on role collaborates with SRE, software, networking, and infra teams to modernize databases, automate operations, and improve reliability and performance.

You will implement replication, backups, DR, and high availability, write production-grade automation, define SLOs, monitor the health of databases, and lead