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Senior DBA II

RELX

Role overview

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

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

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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RELX

Information Services & Data Providers

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries.We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions.In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America.We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.____Please note that RELX does not contact people through social media to extend job or contract offers, nor do we request money, credit card details or bank account information as part of any project or job application process. Any such request is fraudulent. Please contact your local law enforcement agency if you have been victimized by a scammer. For careers, access https://www.relx.com/careers/why-relx

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryInformation Services & Data Providers
Company size10001

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Job description

Are you passionate about building highly available database platforms that power mission-critical services at scale?


Do you enjoy driving automation, cloud modernization, and operational excellence while partnering closely with engineering teams to improve reliability and performance?


About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/


About our Team

The Database Administration team provides enterprise-wide support for mission-critical database platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and operational stability. The team manages MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and cloud database technologies across hybrid environments while driving automation, observability, disaster recovery readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives. Working closely with engineering, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams, DBAs play a key role in delivering resilient and scalable data services that power business-critical applications.


About the Role

We are seeking candidates with deep production support experience in MySQL replication, database reliability engineering, and cloud-based database platforms. Experience with Azure, AWS, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MongoDB is highly desirable. The ideal candidate combines traditional database administration expertise with modern DevOps, SRE, automation, and cloud engineering capabilities and is passionate about building highly reliable, scalable, secure, and automated database platforms.


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.

Requirements

  • 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.


U.S. National Base Pay Range: $95,300 - $158,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

Base Pay Range for CO is $95,300 - $158,800. Base Pay Range for IL is $100,100 - $166,800. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $104,800 - $174,700. Base Pay Range for MD is $100,100 - $166,800. Base Pay Range for NY is $104,800 - $174,700. Base Pay Range for New York City is $114,300 - $190,500. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $95,300 - $158,800. Base Pay Range for OH is $90,500 - $150,900. Base Pay Range for NJ is $112,574- $179,826.


This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.





Application deadline is 12/07/2026.



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