DBA Lead

MySQL
UNITED STATES
September 24, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $115,400 – $192,300 (National Base Pay Range; up to $230,700 depending on location)

About the Role

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a DBA Lead to work with the team on daily activities involving the design, management, maintenance, and utilization of databases, while providing leadership and driving strategy, standards, and processes for applicable database environments.

About The Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Insurance vertical, we provide customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Our insurance risk solutions help drive better data-driven decisions across the insurance policy lifecycle, all while reducing risk. Learn more at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance.

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.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure the maintenance, stability, and operational health of all databases and related technologies.
  • Own and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of production database services.
  • Design, build, and maintain database environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
  • Design and support highly available, multi-region database architectures, and develop/maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
  • Mitigate customer-impacting issues and support product and infrastructure releases according to development plans and schedules.
  • Provide strategic direction for hosted database architectures and assess the impact of hosted product requirements.
  • Lead research into new or alternative technologies and recommend upgrades or changes to database infrastructure.
  • Review, implement, and sign off on enhancements, upgrades, and changes to systems, procedures, and back-office infrastructure environments.
  • Perform database upgrades, maintenance, patching, and lifecycle management.
  • Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning activities.
  • Resolve performance issues and support root cause resolution; perform thorough impact analysis for assigned database infrastructure activities.
  • Install, upgrade, test, and monitor new database infrastructure and equipment.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions and develop automation to eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
  • Support CI/CD integration and database deployment modernization; partner with software engineering teams to improve database reliability and deployment processes.
  • Drive cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks; participate in on-call support and incident response activities.
  • Lead root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and blameless post-mortems to continuously improve operational readiness.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Database Administrators on complex database design, infrastructure, and maintenance topics.
  • Engage with Technical Architects and senior Development team members to provide technical designs and guidance to the Database Operations team.
  • Assign personnel to projects, direct activities, review/evaluate work, prepare performance reports, and support employee development.
  • Carry out management responsibilities in accordance with policies, procedures, and applicable laws (interviewing, hiring, training, planning, appraisals, rewards, and conflict resolution).
  • Project long-range requirements for database administration in collaboration with technology and business leaders.
  • Ensure clear and timely communication with line management and stakeholders regarding progress, issues, and risks.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 7+ years of database administration experience.
  • 7+ years of MySQL DBA or Database Engineering experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing technical teams.
  • Strong experience with MySQL replication design, implementation, and support.
  • Proven experience with High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architectures.
  • Extensive experience with backup and recovery technologies, including Percona XtraBackup and snapshot-based recovery solutions.
  • Experience performing MySQL patching, upgrades, and major version migrations.
  • Strong query optimization, performance tuning, and capacity management experience.
  • Database security administration and governance experience.
  • Strong understanding of database infrastructure, administration, maintenance, and design across multiple operating environments.
  • Strong experience supporting cloud-hosted database services in Azure and/or AWS (e.g., Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server, Azure Managed Database Services, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora) and multi-zone/multi-region deployment strategies.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Terragrunt.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation using GitHub Actions and Git-centric development workflows.
  • Hands-on automation experience using Python, Bash/Shell Scripting, or Ansible.
  • Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms (Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch).
  • Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts (SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis).
  • Strong problem-solving, organizational, project planning, time management, change management, and verbal/written communication skills.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience with additional database technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle.
  • Knowledge of platform engineering, self-service automation, and AI-assisted operations/productivity tools.

Benefits & Perks

  • Annual incentive bonus eligibility.
  • Competitive base salary ranges with geographic differentials:
    • U.S. National Base Pay Range: $115,400 – $192,300
    • Colorado (CO): $115,400 – $192,300
    • Illinois (IL): $121,200 – $201,900
    • Chicago, IL: $126,900 – $211,500
    • Maryland (MD): $121,200 – $201,900
    • New York (NY): $126,900 – $211,500
    • New York City: $138,400 – $230,700
    • Rochester, NY: $115,400 – $192,300
    • Ohio (OH): $109,500 – $182,700
    • New Jersey (NJ): $136,213 – $217,587
  • Country-specific benefits packages supporting employee well-being and happiness.

Risk benefit statement

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/page/21c296c982531000b79663f3194b0000

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $115,400 – $192,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. Base Pay Range for CO is $115,400 – $192,300. Base Pay Range for IL is $121,200 – $201,900. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $126,900 – $211,500. Base Pay Range for MD is $121,200 – $201,900. Base Pay Range for NY is $126,900 – $211,500. Base Pay Range for New York City is $138,400 – $230,700. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $115,400 – $192,300. Base Pay Range for OH is $109,500 – $182,700. Base Pay Range for NJ is $136,213- $217,587. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. Application deadline is 12/23/2026.

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