Consulting​/Principal DBA

Lexis Nexis® Risk Solutions provides 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. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient.

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Lexis Nexis® Risk Solutions provides 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. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient.

You can learn more about Lexis Nexis Risk at

Our Database Engineering team is focused on building and supporting secure, scalable, and highly available database platforms in a cloud-first environment. Working collaboratively with software engineering, SRE, networking, and infrastructure teams, we help modernize database environments, automate operational processes, and enable resilient cloud-native solutions. The team combines deep database expertise with infrastructure automation and modern software development practices to support mission-critical platforms and continuously improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

We are seeking a Principal / Consulting DBA to provide strategic and hands‑on technical leadership for mission‑critical database platforms across cloud‑first and hybrid environments. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor, helping define database platform strategies, guide modernization initiatives, and architect resilient solutions that support business growth and operational excellence. You will combine deep expertise in MySQL and Oracle Database with cloud architecture, automation, infrastructure engineering, and consulting skills to drive platform reliability, scalability, security, and performance across enterprise environments.

• Serve as a principal technical consultant and trusted advisor, designing, administering, optimizing, and modernizing enterprise MySQL and Oracle Database platforms.
• Assess database environments for reliability, performance, security, operational, cost, and modernization opportunities, and 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, Git Hub, and Git Hub Actions.
• Establish and mature SRE practices, including SLOs, observability, incident response, blameless postmortems, reliability engineering, and automation that reduces manual operational work.
• Lead adoption of Git Hub Copilot CLI, Copilot app, and Copilot in VS Code, establishing standards for AI-assisted coding, troubleshooting, testing,…