# Senior Database Administrator

**Company**: Aristocrat
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will have a meaningful role in ensuring our critically important database systems are secure, scalable, and reliable. You'll join a world-class team, applying your expertise to support the high-traffic, data-intensive workloads that power our popular gaming platforms.

### Responsibilities

- Own and evolve the architecture of high-performance, highly available MySQL platforms supporting production game workloads.

- Build database solutions that support long-term data growth, fault tolerance, and operational simplicity.

- Contribute to technology roadmap planning, capacity forecasting, and architectural decision-making.

- Proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve database performance bottlenecks across schema build, queries, indexing, and configuration.

- Define and help meet database reliability targets (SLOs) in collaboration with the Platform Reliability Team.

- Improve and maintain automation for database provisioning, backup and recovery, replication, failover, and disaster recovery.

- Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, and tooling.

- Define and enforce database security standards, access controls, and auditing.

- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

- Partner closely with Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science teams to deliver secure, scalable, and performant database builds.

- Provide hands-on support through pairing, build reviews, and technical consultation.

- Build and maintain high-quality documentation covering architecture, operations, and guidelines.

- Mentor engineers and DBAs, raising the overall database maturity of the organization.

### Requirements

- Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments.

- Deep expertise in MySQL internals, replication and backup/recovery strategies, query optimization, and performance tuning.

- Strong Linux administration skills.

- Proven experience operating databases with high efficiency and low latency.

- Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

- Experience with MySQL clustering technologies and monitoring solutions is a plus.

- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB.

- Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially GCP (Cloud SQL) and AWS, is desirable.

- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.

## Skills

### Required
- MySQL
- Linux
- Database Administration
- Query Optimization
- Performance Tuning
- Cloud Platforms
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Automation Tools

### Nice to have
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- MongoDB
- GCP
- AWS
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Helm

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