Senior DBA Lead – Hybrid Cloud & Automation

LexisNexis Special Services Inc.; Alpharetta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Special Services Inc. is seeking a Lead DBA to guide database platforms, mentor engineers, and shape strategy across multi-region deployments. You will drive reliability, performance, and DR readiness for mission-critical systems in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes leadership, cloud/database technologies, and strong problem-solving to ensure availability and security across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of database administration experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing technical teams.
• Strong understanding of database infrastructure, administration, maintenance, design.
• Experience with cloud-hosted database services.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of production database services.
• Design and support highly available, multi-region database architectures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Define and support operational reliability standards and best practices.
• Design, build, and maintain database environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
• Provide technical support and database administration for mission-critical systems.
• Perform database upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions.
• Develop automation to eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
• Support CI/CD integration and database deployment modernization.
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve database reliability and deployment processes.
• Drive cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in on-call support and incident response activities.
• Lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
• Continuously improve operational readiness and platform resilience.

Skills

Leadership experience

Mentoring teams

Project planning

Communication skills

Database troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Cloud experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/CS

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

Python

Bash/Shell

Ansible

Azure

AWS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

MongoDB

Oracle

Job description

LexisNexis Special Services Inc. is seeking a Lead DBA to guide database platforms, mentor engineers, and shape strategy across multi-region deployments. You will drive reliability, performance, and DR readiness for mission-critical systems in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes leadership, cloud/database technologies, and strong problem-solving to ensure availability and security across hybrid environments.