Senior Database Reliability Engineer - Cloud & Automation

RELX International; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to manage production MySQL environments, design multi-region architectures, and lead automation efforts. You will collaborate with DevOps, security, and engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, and cloud modernization across Azure and AWS.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and proactive incident response, with on-call rotations and a focus on scalable, secure data platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience as a MySQL DBA, Database Engineer or Reliability Engineer.
• Expertise in MySQL replication, HA/DR architectures, backup/recovery, security, and performance tuning.
• Experience supporting cloud database platforms in Azure and/or AWS.
• Strong automation skills using Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Azure Monitor, or CloudWatch.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, or Oracle is beneficial.
• Knowledge of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, incident management, and post-mortems.
• Experience with cloud modernization, platform engineering, and self-service automation.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted operations and engineering productivity tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize MySQL databases in large-scale production environments.
• Design and support highly available, disaster recovery, and multi-region database architectures.
• Perform database 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

HA/DR architectures

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Automation scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

SRE principles

Self-service automation

Python

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to manage production MySQL environments, design multi-region architectures, and lead automation efforts. You will collaborate with DevOps, security, and engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, and cloud modernization across Azure and AWS.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and proactive incident response, with on-call rotations and a focus on scalable, secure data platforms.