Senior MySQL DBA & Cloud Reliability Engineer

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Chicago, Malvern, Cambridge, San Diego (IL, Chester County, MA, CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Engineer (DBA) to design, build, and operate mission-critical MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment. You’ll automate provisioning, deployments, and patches while driving reliability and performance across Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure.

Your role includes leading incident responses, implementing SLOs, and collaborating with software, SRE, and network teams to modernize databases and enable resilient, scalable platforms with IaC and

Qualifications

• Expert MySQL administration, replication, backup/recovery, high availability, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise MySQL databases for secure, scalable, highly available deployments.
• Engineer and maintain replication, backup/recovery, HA, and DR with regular recovery testing.
• Develop production-quality automation for provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, and monitoring.
• Build IaC with Terraform and CI/CD via GitHub/GitHub Actions.
• Define and track SLOs; implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for DB health.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analyses, and postmortems with preventive automation.
• Review AI-assisted tooling output and ensure safe changes; support coding with Copilot.
• Troubleshoot across Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and cloud infra.
• Lead modernization initiatives migrating to cloud-native databases and managed services.

Skills

MySQL

Linux

Python

Go

Java

C#

PowerShell

Bash

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Azure

SRE

DNS

TCP/IP

Load balancing

Firewalls

SSL/TLS

Kubernetes

GitHub Copilot

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Database Engineer (DBA) to design, build, and operate mission-critical MySQL databases in a cloud-first environment. You’ll automate provisioning, deployments, and patches while driving reliability and performance across Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure.

Your role includes leading incident responses, implementing SLOs, and collaborating with software, SRE, and network teams to modernize databases and enable resilient, scalable platforms with IaC and