Senior MySQL & Cloud DB Engineer - Reliability & Automation

Nextens; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a MySQL DBA/Database Reliability Engineer to support production databases in large-scale environments, with a focus on replication, HA/DR, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.

Candidates should have hands-on experience with Azure and AWS, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MongoDB is a plus, plus a strong track record of implementing automation via Python, Bash, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

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

Automation tooling

CI/CD practices

Observability tools

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

DevOps / SRE principles

On-call rotations

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

CloudWatch

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a MySQL DBA/Database Reliability Engineer to support production databases in large-scale environments, with a focus on replication, HA/DR, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.

Candidates should have hands-on experience with Azure and AWS, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MongoDB is a plus, plus a strong track record of implementing automation via Python, Bash, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.