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.