Remote Senior MySQL DBA & Cloud Reliability Engineer

Relx Plc; United States; A distancia; USD 72.000 - 119.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Annual incentive bonus

Remote work flexibility

Descripción de la vacante

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is hiring a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBA) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment. You will implement high-availability, replication, backup/recovery, and incident response in collaboration with software, SRE, and infra teams.

The role requires strong Linux skills, IaC with Terraform, and experience in cloud databases (Azure preferred).

Formación

• Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery, high availability and performance tuning.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting 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, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, along with Git workflows, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience managing databases in cloud environments; Microsoft Azure experience is preferred.
• Working knowledge of SRE practices, including SLOs, observability, incident management, postmortems, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, or Copilot in VS Code.
• Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS, VNet).
• Experience supporting databases on VMs or Kubernetes; building AI-assisted automation workflows is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise MySQL database platforms in a cloud-first environment.
• Engineer and maintain replication, backup/recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery with regular testing.
• Develop production-quality code and automation for database provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and monitoring.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Define and track SLOs; implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for database health and performance.
• Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, and blameless postmortems with preventative automation.
• Collaborate with software engineers, SRE, networking, and infra teams to modernize databases and migrate to cloud-native solutions.
• Lead modernization initiatives including migrations from traditional platforms to cloud-native architectures.

Conocimientos

MySQL administration

Linux administration

Programming: Python Go Java C# Power

Terraform / IaC

GitHub / CI/CD

Cloud databases (Azure preferred)

SRE practices & observability

AI-assisted tooling (GitHub Copilot)

Networking basics

VMs / Kubernetes databases

Herramientas

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

GitHub Copilot

Descripción del empleo

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is hiring a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBA) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment. You will implement high-availability, replication, backup/recovery, and incident response in collaboration with software, SRE, and infra teams.

The role requires strong Linux skills, IaC with Terraform, and experience in cloud databases (Azure preferred).