Senior Cloud DBA & Automation Engineer

Brightmine; Alpharetta (GA); Remote; USD 95,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Alpharetta, GA, is seeking a Senior DBA II to own and operate mission-critical MySQL databases across cloud and hybrid environments. You will drive automation, reliability engineering, and platform modernization in collaboration with engineering, DevOps, and security teams.

The role emphasizes high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning, with exposure to Azure/AWS, multi-region architectures, and IaC tooling like Terraform and scripting.

Qualifications

• Minimum a DBA/Engineering background with strong MySQL replication and HA/DR experience.
• Experience with cloud DB platforms in Azure/AWS and multi-region architectures.
• Proficiency in automation and IaC through Terraform and scripting.
• Familiarity with observability tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize MySQL databases in large-scale production environments.
• Design and support highly available, disaster recovery, and multi-region database architectures.
• Perform upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Build automation and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and scripting tools.
• Support cloud-hosted databases in Azure and AWS environments.
• Implement monitoring, observability, incident response, and root cause analysis processes.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve database reliability, CI/CD, and cloud modernization initiatives.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support.

Skills

MySQL replication

Database reliability engineering

Automation scripting

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Observability tooling

SRE principles

On-call support

Tools

Terraform

Python

Bash

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Alpharetta, GA, is seeking a Senior DBA II to own and operate mission-critical MySQL databases across cloud and hybrid environments. You will drive automation, reliability engineering, and platform modernization in collaboration with engineering, DevOps, and security teams.

The role emphasizes high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning, with exposure to Azure/AWS, multi-region architectures, and IaC tooling like Terraform and scripting.