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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. You will join a world-class team, applying your expertise to support high-traffic, data-intensive workloads powering popular gaming platforms. This role offers an outstanding 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 (>50k QPS).
- Design database solutions that support long-term data growth, fault tolerance, and operational simplicity.
- Participate in technology roadmap planning, capacity forecasting, and architectural decision-making.
- Proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve database performance bottlenecks across schema design, queries, indexing, and configuration.
- Own performance issues end-to-end: triage, root cause analysis, solution design, implementation, and production verification.
- 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, disaster recovery, and schema migrations/deployments.
- Enhance observability through monitoring, alerting, and tooling (e.g. PMM, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Shift performance and security detection earlier in the development lifecycle via tooling and guidelines.
- Define and enforce database security standards, access controls, and auditing.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g. gaming, PCI-DSS).
- Act as a gatekeeper for database-related application changes via reviews and guidance.
- Partner closely with Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science teams to deliver secure, scalable, and performant database designs.
- Act as a database maintainer for the Product Madness codebase, reviewing schema and query changes prior to release.
- Provide hands-on support through pairing, design reviews, and technical consultation.
- Build and maintain high-quality, HLD and LLD documentation covering architecture, operations, and standard methodologies.
- Deliver database services and guidelines to internal customers.
- Continuously improve team workflows, operational processes, and standards.
- Guide engineers and DBAs, improving the overall database maturity of the organization.
- Lead by example in operational excellence, ownership, and technical rigor.
Requirements
- Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments (Percona MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB)
- Deep expertise in MySQL internals
- Deep expertise in MongoDB internals
- Deep expertise in replication and backup/recovery strategies
- Deep expertise in query optimization and performance tuning
- Deep expertise in high-availability and scaling patterns
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Demonstrable experience operating databases at high efficiency and low latency.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, distributed environment.
- Strong proficiency in both written and spoken English communication.
Skills
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- MongoDB
- Linux administration
- Percona MySQL
- Percona PMM
- GCP (Cloud SQL)
- AWS
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Helm
- Cloud SQL
- Postgress
- MySQL clustering technologies (e.g. Galera Cluster)
- Monitoring tools
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Automation tools
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Annual bonuses and incentives
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Paid time off
- Retirement plans
- Insurance coverage
- Other local or statutory benefits
About the Company
- At Aristocrat, we're passionate about bringing happiness to life through the power of play!
- Join us at Aristocrat and be part of a team dedicated to delivering happiness to millions of players worldwide.
- Together, we can build outstanding gaming experiences!