Are you passionate about building highly available, scalable cloud database platforms that power business-critical and customer-facing applications?
Do you enjoy solving complex reliability challenges, automating operations, and mentoring others while driving improvements across modern AWS database environments?
About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/
About the Role
The Database Engineering team is seeking a Senior Cloud Database Engineer II to help ensure the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of cloud data platforms supporting business-critical and customer-facing applications. In this role, you will combine reliability engineering and hands-on cloud database expertise across AWS services, helping to improve service resilience, automate operational processes, and support high-performing production environments. You will also collaborate across engineering teams and provide guidance to colleagues while contributing to operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Create monitoring queries and establish service-level baselines for critical database services
- Design and implement solutions that improve availability, fault tolerance, and recoverability across AWS database platforms
- Participate in on-call rotation to assist in the recovery of major production incidents and act as a senior escalation point
- Plan and execute failover testing within and between AWS regions
- Automate the recovery of systems and components using Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management
- Implement automation and execute code in production environments to reduce manual effort and operational toil
- Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions, including reusable, code-defined dashboards
- Contribute to post-mortems, root cause analyses, reliability engineering documentation, and mentoring of junior engineers
Requirements
- Hands-on experience operating managed cloud database services such as Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Dyna
- moDB, or Amazon ElastiCache
- Strong SQL skills with experience in database design, optimization, and troubleshooting, including schema design, query tuning, indexing, locks, and performance bottlenecks
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or a comparable language
- Experience designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions
- Solid understanding of high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts
- Experience participating in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using CloudFormation or Terraform and CI/CD practices for database change management
- Experience implementing database security, access governance, resiliency patterns, or supporting high-availability production environments
Risk benefit statement
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here
If performed in any following locations: Ireland - Dublin (Rockfield Central), the base pay range is €68,400 - €114,000.
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Skills Required
- Hands-on experience operating managed cloud database services, including Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, or Amazon ElastiCache
- Strong SQL skills, including database design, optimization, troubleshooting, schema design, query tuning, indexing, locks, and performance bottlenecks
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or a comparable language
- Experience designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions
- Understanding of high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts
- Experience participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and root cause analysis
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation or Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD practices for database change management
- Experience implementing database security, access governance, and resiliency patterns or supporting high-availability production environments
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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