Consulting/Principal DBA
About The Position
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Principal / Consulting DBA to provide strategic and hands-on technical leadership for mission-critical database platforms in cloud-first and hybrid environments. The role serves as a trusted advisor, helping define database platform strategies, guide modernization initiatives, and architect resilient solutions that support business growth and operational excellence. The position combines deep MySQL and Oracle Database expertise with cloud architecture, automation, infrastructure engineering, and consulting skills to improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and performance across enterprise environments. The Database Engineering team builds and supports secure, scalable, highly available database platforms, partnering with software engineering, SRE, networking, and infrastructure teams to modernize environments, automate operations, and enable resilient cloud-native solutions. The U.S. national base pay range is $104,900–$174,700, with geographic differentials for specified locations. The role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. The application deadline is 01/22/2027.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, security, and performance tuning.
- Strong hands-on Oracle Database expertise, including RMAN, Data Guard, RAC or equivalent high-availability architectures, backup and recovery, tuning, security, and upgrades.
- Proven experience designing and operating highly available, resilient, enterprise-scale database platforms and leading assessments, modernization programs, cloud migrations, or architecture consulting engagements.
- Strong Linux administration, troubleshooting, and networking knowledge, including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS, virtual networking, and connectivity troubleshooting.
- Proven ability to develop, test, and review production-quality code and automation using Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
- Strong experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience managing databases in cloud environments; Microsoft Azure is preferred.
- Deep understanding of SRE principles.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, including the ability to establish standards for reviewing, testing, and validating AI-generated output.
- Excellent consulting, communication, and technical leadership skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Azure managed database services and Azure-native high-availability/disaster-recovery solutions.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with team-level AI/agent-driven engineering workflows.
- Relevant Oracle, MySQL, or Microsoft Azure certifications.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a principal technical consultant and trusted advisor, designing, administering, optimizing, and modernizing enterprise MySQL and Oracle Database platforms.
- Assess database environments for reliability, performance, security, operational, cost, and modernization opportunities, and define strategic improvement roadmaps.
- Architect and implement replication, clustering, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
- Lead migrations from traditional and on-premises database platforms to cloud-native architectures and managed database services.
- Develop, review, and establish standards for production-quality code and automation covering provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, monitoring, compliance, maintenance, and operations.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices using Terraform, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
- Establish and mature SRE practices, including SLOs, observability, incident response, blameless postmortems, reliability engineering, and automation that reduces manual operational work.
- Lead adoption of GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, and Copilot in VS Code, establishing standards for AI-assisted coding, troubleshooting, testing, review, and security.
- Partner with engineering, SRE, security, networking, and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient and cost-effective platforms.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical direction through architecture reviews, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
Benefits
- Annual incentive bonus.
- Country-specific benefits; applicants are directed to access benefits specific to their location.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
