Senior MySQL DBA - Scale High-Traffic Gaming Platforms

Product Madness (U.K) Limited; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Aristocrat in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the end-to-end lifecycle of critical database platforms, ensuring security, scalability and reliability for high-traffic gaming workloads. This role partners with Architecture, Engineering, Data Science and SRE teams to safely scale MySQL and other databases.

You will drive automation for provisioning, backup/recovery, replication and deployments, define SLOs, and lead governance and security efforts while

Qualifications

• Significant production experience with MySQL in high-traffic environments.
• Strong Linux administration skills and scripting ability.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of database platforms, including architecture and scalability.
• Proactively diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks and tune queries.
• Lead automation for provisioning, backup/recovery, replication, and deployments.
• Define and enforce database security standards and auditing.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Data Science and SRE teams.
• Maintain high-quality documentation and best practices.

Skills

MySQL internals

Replication & backup

Linux administration

Performance tuning

English communication

Tools

Percona PMM

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Aristocrat in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the end-to-end lifecycle of critical database platforms, ensuring security, scalability and reliability for high-traffic gaming workloads. This role partners with Architecture, Engineering, Data Science and SRE teams to safely scale MySQL and other databases.

You will drive automation for provisioning, backup/recovery, replication and deployments, define SLOs, and lead governance and security efforts while