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# MySQL Database Administrator

- **Company:** Aristocrat Technologies
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Databases, Database Design, Database Security, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Computing Environment, Failover, Fault Tolerance, Monitoring of Systems, PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, MongoDB, MySQL, PCI Data Security Standards, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, System Availability, Grafana, Database Performance, Low Latency, Terraform
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-mysql-database-administrator-dba-aristocrat-technologies-indi-8427484

## About the Role

* Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments (Percona MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB)

Deep expertise in:

 * MySQL internals
 * MongoDB internals
 * Replication and backup/recovery strategies
 * Query optimization and performance tuning 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.

## Description

This role owns the end-to-end lifecycle of database platforms - from architecture and design, through performance optimization and automation, to incident response and long-term scalability planning. The successful candidate will act as a technical authority for MySQL, partnering closely with Architecture, Engineering, Data Science, and SRE teams to ensure our databases can safely scale to meet high-traffic, data-intensive workloads., Database Architecture & Scalability

· 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.

Performance & Reliability Engineering

· 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.

Automation, Tooling & Operations

· Improve and maintain automation for:

o Database provisioning

o Backup and recovery

o Replication, failover, and disaster recovery

o Schema migrations and 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.

Database Governance & Security

· 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.

Collaboration & Enablement

· 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.

Documentation & Best Practices

· Build and maintain high-quality, HLD and LLD documentation covering architecture, operations, and standard methodologies.

· delivering database services and guidelines to our internal customers

· Continuously improve team workflows, operational processes, and standards.

Leadership & Collaboration

· Guide engineers and DBAs, improving the overall database maturity of the organization.

· Lead by example in operational excellence, ownership, and technical rigor., * MySQL clustering technologies (e.g. Galera Cluster).

 * Monitoring tools such as Percona PMM.
 * Practical experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
 * Cloud platforms, especially GCP (Cloud SQL), with AWS as a plus.
 * Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools:
 * Terraform
 * Ansible
 * Helm
 * Cloud SQL
 * Postgress