Senior DBA – Database Reliability Engineer

🔥 53 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $71.6k - $119.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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RELX

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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

• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise MySQL database platforms • Engineer and maintain replication, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions • Conduct regular recovery testing • Develop production-quality code and automation for database provisioning, deployments, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and monitoring • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform through GitHub and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines • Define and track SLOs and implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for database health and performance • Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, and blameless postmortems • Implement preventative solutions and self-service automation • Use GitHub Copilot tools to support coding, troubleshooting, testing, and documentation, while reviewing AI-generated output • Troubleshoot issues across databases, Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure • Partner with application teams on schema design, query performance, capacity planning, and safe database changes • Lead database modernization initiatives, including migrations to cloud-native architectures and managed services

🎯 Requirements

• Expert knowledge of MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance tuning • Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills across databases, infrastructure, networking, and cloud environments • Ability to develop, test, and maintain production-quality code and automation using Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages • Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code • Experience with Git workflows, GitHub, and GitHub Actions • Experience managing databases in cloud environments • Working knowledge of SRE practices, including SLOs, observability, incident management, postmortems, and automation • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, or Copilot in VS Code • Strong networking fundamentals, including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS, and virtual networking • Experience supporting databases on VMs or Kubernetes preferred • Experience building AI-assisted or agent-driven automation workflows preferred • Microsoft Azure experience preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive bonus • Country-specific benefits • Disability accommodations and adjustments during the hiring process

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