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Senior MySQL Database Administrator (DBA)
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Senior Database Administrator – Aristocrat
At Aristocrat, we're passionate about bringing happiness to life through the power of play! As a Senior Database Administrator, you will have a meaningful role in ensuring our critically important database systems are secure, scalable, and reliable. You’ll join a world-class team, applying your expertise to support the high-traffic, data-intensive workloads that power our popular gaming platforms. This is an outstanding chance to create a significant impact within an ambitious and innovative organization.
What You'll Do
- 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 design, 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.
- Enhance 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 database administrators, raising the overall database maturity of the organization.
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What We're Looking For
- Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments.
- Deep expertise in:
- MySQL internals
- Replication and backup/recovery strategies
- Query optimization
- 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.
- Plus: Experience with MySQL clustering technologies and monitoring solutions.
- Knowledge of: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB.
- Desirable: Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly:
- GCP (Cloud SQL)
- AWS
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools like:
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Helm
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Why Aristocrat?
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 millions of people who love our casino and mobile games. While we focus on fun, we stay committed to:
- Responsible gameplay
- LGBTQ+ inclusivity
- Employee wellbeing and sustainability
Our values guide us:
- All about the Player
- Talent Unleashed
- Collective Brilliance
- Good Business, Good Citizen
Career highlights: ✔ World leader in gaming entertainment ✔ Robust benefits package ✔ Global career opportunities
Additional Considerations:
- Travel expectation: None
- Mandatory screening: Comprehensive background checks, licensing, and regulatory approvals.
- Rang réglementaire strict: Licensed in over 340 gaming jurisdictions; certain personal and background disclosures may be required.
- Visa sponsorship: This role does not currently offer visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work legally in the job posting location on a full-time basis.
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