Database Administrator

Hard Rock Digital; England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital gaming company is seeking an experienced Database Administrator. This role focuses on managing CockroachDB infrastructures, ensuring high performance and security, and mentoring team members in database best practices. The ideal candidate will contribute to a startup culture with innovative problem-solving skills while enjoying a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Flexible vacation allowance

Flexible work from home or office hours

Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator.
• 2 years hands-on experience with CockroachDB.
• Proficient in SQL and database schema design.

Responsibilities

• Monitor database performance and optimize configurations.
• Establish a Database Center of Excellence with documentation and standards.
• Collaborate with teams on database schema design and implementation.

Skills

Database performance tuning

Query optimization

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

CockroachDB

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

SQL

Python

Job description

What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us?

What’s the position?

We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator with expertise in CockroachDB to join our team. As a Database Administrator, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our distributed database infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance of our mission-critical applications. You will play a crucial role in optimizing database operations and supporting our growing digital platform.

As a Database Administrator, you will:

• Establish and maintain a Database Center of Excellence, creating documentation, standards, and best practices for database operations across the organization

• Drive knowledge sharing initiatives and mentor team members on database best practices, helping to build a culture of database engineering excellence

• Participate in design, implementation, and maintenance of our CockroachDB infrastructure across multiple regions and environments.

• Monitor database performance, tune queries, and optimize database configurations to maintain optimal system performance.

• Implement and maintain security measures for database access, including user authentication, authorization, and audit logging.

• Collaborate with development teams to design efficient database schemas, implement data models, and optimize query patterns.

• Automate database operations, including deployment, scaling, and maintenance tasks using infrastructure as code principles.

• Write tools related to database management and monitoring.

• Provide technical guidance and best practices to development teams on database usage, including query optimization and data modeling.

• Troubleshoot complex database issues and implement solutions to prevent recurrence.

• Stay current with CockroachDB updates, features, and best practices to drive continuous improvement.

Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an engineer who is willing to tackle problems with innovative ideas and quality technical implementations. We believe the perfect candidate isn't interested in just what we're building right now, but wants to understand where we're going and how it impacts the customer to ensure everything we create moves us closer to our goal: delivering the best customer experience.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator, with at least 2 years of hands-on experience with CockroachDB in production environments

• Strong understanding of distributed database concepts, including consensus algorithms, distributed transactions, and CAP theorem

• Experience with database performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting in distributed environments

• Proficiency in SQL and experience with database schema design and optimization

• Proficiency in writing tools in a higher-level language such as Python

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Kubernetes

• Strong understanding of database security principles and best practices

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with other distributed databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Cassandra)

• Experience with data warehousing, ideally with Snowflake

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana

• CockroachDB certification or advanced training

• Experience with database migration and upgrade strategies

What’s in it for you?

We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include:

• Competitive pay and benefits

• Flexible vacation allowance

• Flexible work from home or office hours

• Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand

• Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team

Roster of Uniques

We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us and trust and empower our staff to own and drive their experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunities employer)