Senior MySQL DBA — High-Performance & Scalable

Aristocrat Gaming; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Aristocrat is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the end-to-end lifecycle of MySQL platforms, ensuring security, scalability and reliability for high-traffic game workloads.

You will partner with Architecture, Engineering and SRE to optimize performance, automate provisioning, backups, replication, DR, and to define SLOs.

Deep MySQL internals knowledge, strong Linux administration, and excellent English communication are essential to guide engineers and drive operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Extensive production MySQL experience in high-traffic environments.
• Strong Linux system administration skills.
• Experience with replication, backup/recovery, and high-availability patterns.
• Ability to collaborate in a fast-paced distributed environment.
• Excellent English communication—written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end lifecycle of database platforms from architecture to scalability planning.
• Optimize performance and manage incident response.
• Define and meet SLOs with Platform Reliability Team.
• Improve automation for provisioning, backups, replication, and deployments.
• Ensure security governance and regulatory compliance.

Skills

MySQL internals

Replication & backup strategies

Query optimization

Linux administration

High availability patterns

English communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Percona PMM

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Job description

Aristocrat is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the end-to-end lifecycle of MySQL platforms, ensuring security, scalability and reliability for high-traffic game workloads.

You will partner with Architecture, Engineering and SRE to optimize performance, automate provisioning, backups, replication, DR, and to define SLOs.

Deep MySQL internals knowledge, strong Linux administration, and excellent English communication are essential to guide engineers and drive operational excellence.