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About the Role
As a Senior Database Administrator at Aristocrat, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of our critical database systems, supporting high-traffic, data-intensive workloads for popular gaming platforms. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact within an ambitious and innovative organization.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the architecture of high-performance, highly available MySQL platforms supporting production game workloads.
- Build database solutions that support long-term data growth, fault tolerance, and operational simplicity.
- Contribute to technology roadmap planning, capacity forecasting, and architectural decision-making.
- Proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve database performance bottlenecks across schema build, queries, indexing, and configuration.
- Define and help meet database reliability targets (SLOs) in collaboration with the Platform Reliability Team.
- Improve and maintain automation for database provisioning, backup and recovery, replication, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, and tooling.
- Define and enforce database security standards, access controls, and auditing.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Partner closely with Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science teams to deliver secure, scalable, and performant database builds.
- Provide hands-on support through pairing, build reviews, and technical consultation.
- Build and maintain high-quality documentation covering architecture, operations, and guidelines.
- Mentor engineers and DBAs, raising the overall database maturity of the organization.
Requirements
- Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments.
- Deep expertise in MySQL internals, replication and backup/recovery strategies, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Proven experience operating databases with high efficiency and low latency.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, distributed environment.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
Skills
- MySQL
- Linux administration
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Helm
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- MongoDB
- GCP (Cloud SQL)
- AWS
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Robust benefits package
- Global career opportunities
About the Company
- Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games.
- We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games.
- Aristocrat is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games.
- Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Aristocrat (ASX code: ALL) is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 7300 employees working in more than 20 locations across the globe.
- Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, mobile games and online real money games, including iLottery.
- Aristocrat has seven corporate functions and three reporting segments that span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive).
- Our game and product portfolios collectively entertain millions of players worldwide every day.
- Across our global enterprise, Aristocrat aims to create long-term sustainable value for all stakeholders by upholding our core values and producing the world’s best gaming content.
- Our people-first mindset prioritises the safety and wellbeing of our people.
- We have ambitions to be an industry leader in responsible gameplay and we invest in employees’ development and offer career pathways, so they have what they need to do their best work at Aristocrat.
- Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us every day.
- We are excited about the future of Aristocrat and united by our mission and we invite everyone to join us as we bring joy to life through the power of play!
- At Aristocrat, sustainability is embedded in our strategy, operations and the values and culture of our teams across the globe.
Equal Opportunity
- Aristocrat Leisure Limited or its affiliates worldwide provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind without regard to any protected characteristic, such as race, color, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by local, state/provincial or federal law.
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