Senior AWS Cloud Database Reliability Engineer

Nextens; United States; À distance; USD 140 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms for business-critical applications. You will apply hands-on AWS database expertise across AWS services, driving automation and operational excellence.

You will collaborate across teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and design failover tests and comprehensive monitoring solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS managed cloud database services.
• Strong SQL design, tuning, indexing, and performance optimization.
• Scripting and automation with Python or Bash.
• Experience designing monitoring and observability solutions.
• Knowledge of high availability, backup and disaster recovery concepts.
• Experience with IaC (CloudFormation or Terraform) and CI/CD for DB changes.
• Security, access governance, and resiliency in production databases.
• On-call involvement and incident post-mortem experience.

Responsabilités

• Create monitoring queries and establish service baselines for critical DB services
• Design solutions to improve availability and recoverability across AWS databases
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response
• Plan and execute cross-region failover testing
• Automate recovery and operational tasks via code
• Develop monitoring dashboards and alerting rules
• Document resilience practices and mentor junior engineers

Connaissances

SQL

Python/Bash

Automation & IaC

Monitoring & observability

On-call / incident response

Outils

Aurora MySQL

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

DynamoDB

ElastiCache

Description du poste

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms for business-critical applications. You will apply hands-on AWS database expertise across AWS services, driving automation and operational excellence.

You will collaborate across teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and design failover tests and comprehensive monitoring solutions.