Senior MySQL & Cloud DBA - Reliability Engineer (Remote)

LexisNexis Special Services Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 72,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Job summary

LexisNexis Special Services Inc. is seeking a Senior DBA -1 (Database Reliability Engineer) to design, automate, and operate mission-critical MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment. You will partner with SRE, software, and infra teams to improve reliability and performance.

The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, disaster recovery, and automation, using Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling to deliver secure, scalable databases.

Qualifications

• Must have strong MySQL administration, replication, backup, recovery, high availability.
• Solid Linux admin skills across databases, infra, networking and cloud environments.
• Experience developing, testing, and maintaining production-grade automation scripts.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment.
• Engineer and maintain high availability, backup/recovery, and DR solutions with regular testing.
• Develop production-quality automation for provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, and monitoring.

Skills

MySQL administration

Linux administration

Python

Go

Terraform

GitHub/GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

AI-assisted tools

Networking fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions CI/CD

Kubernetes

Azure

VMs/Kubernetes

Job description

LexisNexis Special Services Inc. is seeking a Senior DBA -1 (Database Reliability Engineer) to design, automate, and operate mission-critical MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment. You will partner with SRE, software, and infra teams to improve reliability and performance.

The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, disaster recovery, and automation, using Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling to deliver secure, scalable databases.