Senior Cloud-Native DBA & Reliability Engineer

LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. Company; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Engineer (DBA) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical MySQL platforms in a cloud-first environment. This hands-on role partners with SRE, software, and infrastructure teams to modernize databases and deliver secure, scalable systems.

The ideal candidate combines deep database expertise with cloud-native architecture and automation, enabling high availability and reliable performance across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in MySQL administration, replication, and recovery.
• Strong Linux administration across databases, infra, network, and cloud.
• Ability to write production-grade code and automation (Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience with Terraform, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Azure and cloud-native databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and optimize MySQL database platforms for reliability and scale.
• Engineer replication, backup/recovery, HA, and DR with testing.
• Develop automation for provisioning, deployments, upgrades, and monitoring.
• Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and manage changes via GitHub.
• Define and monitor SLOs with observability and dashboards.

Skills

MySQL administration

Linux administration

Programming (Python/Go/Java)

SRE practices

Cloud-native architectures

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Engineer (DBA) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical MySQL platforms in a cloud-first environment. This hands-on role partners with SRE, software, and infrastructure teams to modernize databases and deliver secure, scalable systems.

The ideal candidate combines deep database expertise with cloud-native architecture and automation, enabling high availability and reliable performance across complex environments.