Principal DBA

🔥 2 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $104.9k - $174.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

Consulting • Healthcare • Insurance

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The company focuses on enabling its clients to make better decisions, improve results, and enhance productivity by leveraging advanced technology and data. RELX serves various sectors, including Risk, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Legal, and Exhibitions, by offering specialized information and analytical tools that facilitate critical decision-making. The company is committed to corporate responsibility and delivering societal benefit through its products by contributing to scientific advancement, legal justice, and effective market transactions.

📋 Description

• Serve as a principal technical consultant and trusted advisor for enterprise MySQL and Oracle Database platforms • Design, administer, optimize, and modernize database platforms • Assess database environments for reliability, performance, security, operational, cost, and modernization opportunities • 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 operational automation • Lead adoption of GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, and Copilot in VS Code • Establish 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

🎯 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 HA architectures, backup and recovery, tuning, security, and upgrades • Proven experience designing and operating highly available, resilient, enterprise-scale database platforms • Experience 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 • 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, preferably Microsoft Azure • Experience with Azure managed database services and Azure-native HA/DR preferred • Deep understanding of SRE principles • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot • Ability to establish standards for reviewing, testing, and validating AI-generated output • Excellent consulting, communication, and technical leadership skills • Experience with Kubernetes, team-level AI/agent-driven engineering workflows, and relevant Oracle, MySQL, or Microsoft Azure certifications preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive bonus • Country-specific benefits • Disability accommodation or adjustment support

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