Remote Principal DBA & Cloud Architecture Lead

Relx Plc; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Relx Plc seeks a Consulting/Principal DBA to lead strategic database initiatives across cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will architect, optimize, and modernize MySQL and Oracle platforms while guiding migrations to managed cloud services and ensuring reliability, security, and cost effectiveness.

You will drive automation with Terraform, GitHub, and CI/CD, establish SRE practices, and mentor engineers across teams, balancing hands-on delivery with architectural leadership.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup/recovery, HA, security, and performance tuning.
• Strong Linux administration, networking, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and operating enterprise-scale database platforms, cloud migrations, or architecture consulting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal technical consultant, designing, administering, and modernizing enterprise MySQL and Oracle Database platforms.
• Assess environments for reliability, performance, security, cost, and modernization opportunities and define roadmaps.
• Lead migrations to cloud-native architectures and managed database services.

Skills

MySQL administration

Oracle Database expertise

Linux administration

SRE principles

Consulting/leadership

CI/CD practices

Cloud/Azure experience

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Relx Plc seeks a Consulting/Principal DBA to lead strategic database initiatives across cloud-first and hybrid environments. You will architect, optimize, and modernize MySQL and Oracle platforms while guiding migrations to managed cloud services and ensuring reliability, security, and cost effectiveness.

You will drive automation with Terraform, GitHub, and CI/CD, establish SRE practices, and mentor engineers across teams, balancing hands-on delivery with architectural leadership.