Senior Cloud Database Engineer II

Nextens; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

SQL

Python/Bash

Automation & IaC

Monitoring & observability

On-call / incident response

Tools

Aurora MySQL

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift

DynamoDB

ElastiCache

Job description

Are you passionate about building highly available, scalable cloud database platforms that power business-critical and customer-facing applications?

Do you enjoy solving complex reliability challenges, automating operations, and mentoring others while driving improvements across modern AWS database environment s?

About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/

About the Role

The Database Engineering team is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to help ensure the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms supporting business-critical and customer-facing applications. In this role, you will combine reliability engineering and hands-on cloud database expertise across AWS services, helping to improve service resilience, automate operational processes, and support high-performing production environments. You will also collaborate across engineering teams and provide guidance to colleagues while contributing to operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and establish service-level baselines for critical database services
• Design and implement solutions that improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS database platforms
• Participate in on-call rotation to assist in the recovery of major production incidents and act as a senior escalation point
• Plan and execute failover testing within and between AWS regions
• Automate the recovery of systems and components using Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management
• Implement automation and execute code in production environments to reduce manual effort and operational toil
• Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions, including reusable, code-defined dashboards
• Contribute to post-mortems, root cause analyses, reliability engineering documentation, and mentoring of junior engineers

Requirements

• Hands-on experience operating managed cloud database services such as Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Dyna
• moDB, or Amazon ElastiCache
• Strong SQL skills with experience in database design, optimization, and troubleshooting, including schema design, query tuning, indexing, locks, and performance bottlenecks
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or a comparable language
• Experience designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions
• Solid understanding of high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts
• Experience participating in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using CloudFormation or Terraform and CI/CD practices for database change management
• Experience implementing database security, access governance, resiliency patterns, or supporting high-availability production environments

Risk benefit statement

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here

If performed in any following locations: Ireland - Dublin (Rockfield Central), the base pay range is €68,400 - €114,000.

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