Senior MySQL & Cloud DBA | Automation & DR Expert (Remote)

LexisNexis Special Services Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Special Services Inc. in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Senior DBA II to join the Database Administration team.

You will manage MySQL in large-scale production, driving reliability, automation, and cloud modernization while partnering with engineering to improve performance and stability. This role supports Azure and AWS hosted databases, designs high-availability and multi-region architectures, performs upgrades and backups, and participates in on-call rotations to keep services

Qualifications

• Experience as MySQL DBA/Database Engineer or Reliability Engineer.
• Expertise in MySQL replication, HA/DR, backup/recovery, security, and tuning.
• Experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud databases.
• Strong automation skills using Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with observability tools: Grafana, Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch.
• Knowledge of SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, post-mortems.
• Experience with platform modernization and self-service automation.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted operations 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

Backup and recovery

Performance tuning

Security

Cloud platforms Azure/AWS

DevOps automation

Python

Bash

Observability

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Oracle

SRE concepts

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

LexisNexis Special Services Inc. in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Senior DBA II to join the Database Administration team.

You will manage MySQL in large-scale production, driving reliability, automation, and cloud modernization while partnering with engineering to improve performance and stability. This role supports Azure and AWS hosted databases, designs high-availability and multi-region architectures, performs upgrades and backups, and participates in on-call rotations to keep services