{"id":1150588,"url":"https://alion.io/job/relx-dba-lead","title":"DBA Lead","company":{"id":3770,"name":"RELX","domain":"relx.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/relx","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":115,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.843,"repost_share":0.009,"time_to_fill_p50_days":31,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Alpharetta, United States","United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":115400,"max":192300,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":192300},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon Aurora","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"MySQL","optional":false},{"name":"Oracle","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Terragrunt","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T17:30:18Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T23:35:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Are you passionate about leading database platforms that power critical business solutions and drive operational excellence?\nDo you enjoy mentoring technical teams, shaping database strategy, and solving complex infrastructure challenges in a collaborative environment?\nAbout the Business\nLexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Insurance vertical, we provide customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Our insurance risk solutions help drive better data-driven decisions across the insurance policy lifecycle, all while reducing risk. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at\nhttps://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance\nAbout our Team\nThe Database Administration team provides enterprise-wide support for mission-critical database platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and operational stability. The team manages MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and cloud database technologies across hybrid environments while driving automation, observability, disaster recovery readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives. Working closely with engineering, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams, DBAs play a key role in delivering resilient and scalable data services that power business-critical applications.\nAbout the Role\nThis candidate works with team on daily activities involving the design, management, maintenance, and utilization of databases. Provide leadership and drive strategy, standards, and processes for applicable database environments.\nResponsibilities\nEnsure the maintenance, stability, and operational health of all databases and related technologies.\nMitigate customer-impacting issues and support product and infrastructure releases according to development plans and schedules.\nProvide strategic direction for hosted database architectures and assess the impact of hosted product requirements.\nLead research into new or alternative technologies and recommend upgrades or changes to database infrastructure.\nReview, implement, and sign off on enhancements, upgrades, and changes to systems, procedures, and back-office infrastructure environments.\nProvide technical leadership and mentoring to Database Administrators on complex database design, infrastructure, and maintenance topics.\nEngage with Technical Architects and senior Development team members to provide technical designs and guidance to the Database Operations team.\nTake responsibility for the implications and impact of technical design decisions.\nResolve performance issues and support root cause resolution.\nPerform thorough impact analysis for assigned database infrastructure activities and understand their effect on business operations.\nRespond to issues and support calls in accordance with relevant procedures, including security requirements.\nInstall, upgrade, test, and monitor new database infrastructure and equipment.\nMonitor database operations and support maintenance activities efficiently to minimize issues and incidents.\nEnsure clear and timely communication with the line manager and relevant stakeholders regarding progress, issues, and risks.\nPerform all other duties as assigned.\nLeadership and People Management\nAssign personnel to projects and direct their activities to meet business and technology objectives.\nReview and evaluate work, prepare performance reports, and support employee development.\nProject long-range requirements for database administration in collaboration with technology and business leaders.\nCarry out management responsibilities in accordance with organizational policies, procedures, and applicable laws, including interviewing, hiring, training, planning, assigning work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, and resolving complaints or concerns.\nEnsure staff have the training, resources, feedback, and coaching needed to consistently meet or exceed individual and team performance goals.\nEncourage new ideas from staff to foster continuous improvement and innovation.\nEmpower staff to be accountable and responsible for their actions and decisions.\nQualifications\n7+ years of database administration experience.\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience required.\nDemonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing technical teams.\nTechnical Skills\nStrong understanding of database infrastructure, administration, maintenance, design, and related technologies.\nProven ability to troubleshoot database connectivity, infrastructure, and performance issues across multiple operating environments.\nAbility to perform root cause analysis and impact analysis for database-related issues.\nExperience installing, upgrading, testing, and monitoring database infrastructure and equipment.\nAbility to research, evaluate, and recommend new or alternative database technologies.\nStrong problem-solving, organizational, project planning, time management, change management, and delegation skills.\nStrong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present concise and effective information to senior leadership, customers, and cross-functional teams.\nStrong interpersonal, mentoring, customer service, and presentation skills.\nAbility to set, communicate, implement, and achieve business objectives through the direct management of others.\nAdditional Skills:\nDatabase Technologies\n7+ years of MySQL DBA or Database Engineering experience.\nStrong experience with MySQL replication design, implementation, and support.\nExperience with High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architectures.\nExtensive experience with backup and recovery technologies including Percona XtraBackup and snapshot-based recovery solutions.\nExperience performing MySQL patching, upgrades, and major version migrations.\nStrong query optimization, performance tuning, and capacity management experience.\nDatabase security administration and governance experience.\nAdditional Database Technologies (Preferred)\nMicrosoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle\nModern Engineering Competencies\nCloud-native architecture principles\nPlatform engineering and self-service automation.\nAI-assisted operations and engineering productivity tools.\nAutomated testing and deployment strategies.\nContinuous improvement mindset and operational excellence focus.\nCloud Engineering\nStrong experience supporting cloud-hosted database services in Azure and/or AWS\nExperience with: Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server, Azure Managed Database Services, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora\nKnowledge of multi-zone and multi-region deployment strategies\nDevOps & Platform Engineering\nInfrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Terragrunt\nCI/CD pipeline implementation using GitHub Actions\nGit-centric development workflows\nAutomation experience using: Python, Bash/Shell Scripting, Ansible\nObservability & Reliability Engineering\nExperience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms includingGrafana/Datadog/ELK\nAzure Monitor\nCloudWatch\n\nUnderstanding of SRE concepts including:Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)\nError Budgets\nIncident Management\nRoot Cause Analysis\nBlameless Post-mortems\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nDatabase Reliability Engineering\nOwn and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of production database services.\nDesign and support highly available, multi-region database architectures.\nDevelop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.\nDefine and support operational reliability standards and best practices.\nDatabase Administration & Operations\nSupport database management systems and all related software platforms.\nDesign, build, and maintain database environments across development, testing, staging, and production.\nProvide technical support and database administration for mission-critical systems.\nPerform database upgrades, maintenance, patching, and lifecycle management.\nConduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning activities.\nAutomation & Cloud Enablement\nBuild and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions.\nDevelop automation to eliminate repetitive operational tasks.\nSupport CI/CD integration and database deployment modernization.\nPartner with software engineering teams to improve database reliability and deployment processes.\nDrive cloud migration and modernization initiatives.\nObservability & Incident Response\nImplement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.\nParticipate in on-call support and incident response activities.\nLead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.\nContinuously improve operational readiness and platform resilience.\nRisk benefit statement\nLearn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/page/21c296c982531000b79663f3194b0000\n\nU.S. National Base Pay Range: $115,400 - $192,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.\n\nBase Pay Range for CO is $115,400 - $192,300. Base Pay Range for IL is $121,200 - $201,900. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $126,900 - $211,500. Base Pay Range for MD is $121,200 - $201,900. Base Pay Range for NY is $126,900 - $211,500. Base Pay Range for New York City is $138,400 - $230,700. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $115,400 - $192,300. Base Pay Range for OH is $109,500 - $182,700. Base Pay Range for NJ is $136,213- $217,587.\n\nThis job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.\n\nApplication deadline is 12/23/2026.\n\nWe know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Clickhereto access benefits specific to your location.\nWe are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. 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