Senior MySQL Architect - Scale & Secure DB Platforms

Aristocrat Gaming; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Robust benefits package

Global career opportunities

Job summary

Aristocrat Gaming in London is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own end-to-end database platforms, ensuring security, scalability and reliability for high-traffic gaming workloads.

You will partner with Architecture, Engineering and Data Science teams to optimize MySQL-based systems, lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and enforce governance while mentoring engineers and DBAs.

Qualifications

• Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments (Percona MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB).
• Strong Linux administration skills and service reliability mindset.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication; ability to collaborate in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture, scalability, and performance for high-traffic MySQL platforms.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve database performance bottlenecks end-to-end.
• Lead automation for provisioning, backup/recovery, replication, and deployments.
• Define database security standards, access controls, and auditing.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science to deliver scalable designs.
• Mentor engineers and DBAs, driving operational excellence and best practices.

Skills

MySQL internals

MongoDB internals

Replication & backup

Query optimization

HA & scaling

Linux administration

Collaboration

English communication

Tools

Percona PMM

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Cloud SQL

Job description

Aristocrat Gaming in London is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own end-to-end database platforms, ensuring security, scalability and reliability for high-traffic gaming workloads.

You will partner with Architecture, Engineering and Data Science teams to optimize MySQL-based systems, lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and enforce governance while mentoring engineers and DBAs.