Lead Database Architect & Platform Reliability

Betfred; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company in Manchester seeks a Lead DBA to own the architecture and operations of their database platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with relational and non-relational databases and will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of the database infrastructure. This role includes mentoring the DBA team and leading continuous improvement efforts. The position offers a competitive salary package ranging from £80,000 to £95,000, along with generous benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary and pension contribution

Generous discretionary bonus schemes

Increasing annual leave entitlement

24/7 access to an online GP

Employee wellbeing support

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay

Pay day savings scheme through Wagestream

Qualifications

• Strong experience across relational and non-relational platforms.
• Deep expertise in high availability, replication, clustering and disaster recovery.
• Strong Linux administration and advanced scripting skills.
• Proven ability to solve complex performance issues.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and governance.
• Experience leading teams and defining standards.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and maintenance of highly available, fault-tolerant database infrastructure.
• Plan for growth and scalability aligned with business and platform needs.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging database technologies.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
• Manage resource utilisation across storage, compute, memory and networking.
• Implement and validate replication and disaster recovery strategies.
• Monitor database health, capacity and performance.
• Collaborate with developers to optimise schema design and queries.
• Build and maintain CI/CD and automation pipelines.
• Troubleshoot complex database and application issues.

Skills

Strong experience across relational and non-relational platforms (MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB)

Deep expertise in HA, replication, clustering and DR

Strong Linux administration and advanced scripting skills

Proven ability to solve complex performance issues

Strong understanding of security, compliance and governance

Experience leading teams and defining standards

Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation and IaC (Ansible, Terraform)

Job description

A leading gaming company in Manchester seeks a Lead DBA to own the architecture and operations of their database platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with relational and non-relational databases and will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of the database infrastructure. This role includes mentoring the DBA team and leading continuous improvement efforts. The position offers a competitive salary package ranging from £80,000 to £95,000, along with generous benefits.