Senior Cloud Database Engineer II – AWS Reliability & Automation

RELX INC; United States; Remote; USD 77,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Dublin, Ireland, is hiring a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, and security of cloud data platforms powering business-critical applications. You will apply hands-on cloud database expertise across AWS services and mentor peers.

You will design automated recovery, implement monitoring, and contribute to operational excellence through on-call support, incident response, and post-mortems.

Qualifications

• Experience with managed cloud database services (Aurora MySQL, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, or ElastiCache).
• Strong SQL skills including design, tuning and indexing.
• Proficient in scripting/automation (Python or Bash).
• Experience designing monitoring and observability solutions.
• Understanding of HA, backup, and DR concepts.
• Experience with on-call rotation and incident response.
• Experience with IaC (CloudFormation or Terraform) and CI/CD for DB changes.
• Experience implementing database security and access governance.

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.

Skills

Cloud database services (Aurora/MySQL,

SQL skills

Scripting/Automation

Monitoring/Observability

On-call incident response

IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform)

CI/CD for DB changes

Security & access governance

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Dublin, Ireland, is hiring a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to ensure reliability, performance, and security of cloud data platforms powering business-critical applications. You will apply hands-on cloud database expertise across AWS services and mentor peers.

You will design automated recovery, implement monitoring, and contribute to operational excellence through on-call support, incident response, and post-mortems.