What are the responsibilities and job description for the MySQL DBA position at LexisNexis Risk Solutions?
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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics, decisioning tools and data management services that help them solve problems, make better decisions, stay compliant, reduce risk and improve operations. Headquartered in metro-Atlanta, Georgia it operates within the Risk market segment of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
As a Cloud based MySQL DBA you will handle all aspects of Database Implementation, Administration, and work closely with SRE’s and software developers to build best-in-class Database solutions through automation and an IAC (Infrastructure As Code) approach.
You will help transform onprem databases into a modern cloud implementation at Enterprise scale with an eye toward operational excellence. This includes HA, DR strategies. Our goal is to automate our database implementation and administration at scale with reusable code as our force multiplier. You will be central to optimizing our processes, infrastructure, system performance.
This position offers and requires a balance between autonomy and collaboration. You will have the freedom to innovate, which means you must have initiative, judgement, and strong decision-making capabilities. You will collaborate with others to find what’s best for the customer and the company and we will work together to make it happen.
We have a great culture, great contributors, and we’re out to be best-in-class. You could be a part of it.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensuring data and operational security through secure design, effective access management, and secure storage practices.
- Ensuring reliability through HA, DR implementations and good administration practices.
- Ensuring fast recovery through highly automated and well-tested backup processes.
- Monitoring system performance and identifying problems early by helping to develop high quality monitoring systems.
- Responding in a timely manner to support requests. Reporting on metrics regarding usage and performance.
- Finding ways to improve the reliability, performance, observability, and cost effectiveness of our database assets.
Skills:
- Current experience as a MySQL DBA. Experiences with other databases such as MongoDB/CosmosDB, MS SQL a plus.
- Current experience with running Cloud Infrastructure. Azure Cloud experience a plus
- Experience in query optimization and performance improvement.
- Knowledge of the cloud and managed services such as MS Flex Server or AWS RDS.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools such as Terraform/Terragrunt and GitHub Actions
- Modern observability/alerting platform experience: Grafana, ELK, DataDog, Splunk, etc.
- Mastery of current DB best practices and design patterns.
- Good conceptual knowledge of OODB’s
- Automation skills in Bash, Golang, Python a plus.
