Senior DBA II

October 17, 2026

Job Description

Company: RELX
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $95,300 – $158,800

About the Role

RELX (LexisNexis Risk Solutions) is seeking a Senior DBA II in Alpharetta, GA to manage and optimize highly available MySQL database platforms in large-scale production environments. This role partners across engineering, DevOps, and security teams to drive reliability, cloud modernization, and automation.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Manage, monitor, and optimize highly available MySQL database platforms in production environments.
  • Design and implement disaster recovery architectures and multi-region replication strategies.
  • Perform database version upgrades, patching, regular backups, and recovery procedures.
  • Conduct performance tuning, SQL query optimization, lock diagnostics, and capacity planning.
  • Support cloud databases across Azure and AWS with advanced observability and monitoring tools.
  • Build infrastructure and operational automation using Terraform, Python, Bash, and Ansible.
  • Perform root cause analysis for incidents and participate in on-call operational rotation.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Extensive experience as a MySQL DBA, Database Engineer, or Reliability Engineer.
  • Deep expertise in MySQL replication, high availability clustering, and disaster recovery architectures.
  • Strong hands-on proficiency with cloud database environments on AWS or Azure.
  • Proven experience building database automation using Python, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform.
  • Solid background in production troubleshooting, query profiling, and database security.

Benefits & Perks

  • U.S. National Base Pay Range: $95,300 – $158,800.
  • Eligible for annual incentive bonus programs.
  • Application deadline: 12/07/2026.