DBA Lead

MySQL, Oracle + Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 20, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: RELX (LexisNexis Risk Solutions)
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Workplace Type: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $115,400 – $192,300 (Location dependent, plus annual incentive bonus)

About the Role

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a DBA Lead to join our Database Administration team. In this role, you will provide enterprise-wide support for mission-critical database platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and operational stability. You will work with a collaborative team managing MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and cloud database technologies across hybrid environments while driving automation, observability, and disaster recovery initiatives.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Database Reliability & Operations: Ensure the maintenance, stability, and operational health of all databases, supporting product and infrastructure releases while minimizing issues and incidents.
  • Architecture & Strategy: Provide strategic direction for hosted database architectures, assess product requirements, and lead research into new or alternative database technologies.
  • Technical Leadership & Mentoring: Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Database Administrators on complex database design, infrastructure, and maintenance topics.
  • Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting: Resolve performance issues, support root cause analysis, and perform thorough impact analysis for assigned database infrastructure activities.
  • Automation & Cloud Enablement: Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions, develop automation to eliminate repetitive operational tasks, and drive cloud migration initiatives.
  • Leadership & People Management: Assign personnel to projects, direct activities, review and evaluate work, support employee development, and manage hiring, training, and performance.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 7+ years of database administration experience, with 7+ years of MySQL DBA or Database Engineering experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience required.
  • Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing technical teams.
  • Strong understanding of database infrastructure, administration, maintenance, design, and related technologies.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot database connectivity, infrastructure, and performance issues across multiple operating environments.
  • Extensive experience with backup and recovery technologies including Percona XtraBackup and snapshot-based recovery solutions.
  • Strong experience with MySQL replication design, implementation, and support, as well as High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architectures.
  • Experience performing MySQL patching, upgrades, and major version migrations.
  • Experience supporting cloud-hosted database services in Azure (Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server, Azure Managed Database Services) and/or AWS (Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora).
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Terragrunt, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting in Python or Bash/Shell.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Experience with additional database technologies including Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Oracle.
  • Familiarity with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch.
  • Knowledge of SRE concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-mortems.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Country-specific well-being and happiness benefits
  • Annual incentive bonus eligible

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

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