Senior Database Administrator in London

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 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.

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, 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 MySQL clustering technologies and monitoring solutions is a plus.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially GCP (Cloud SQL) and AWS, is desirable.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.

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!

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 the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability. We’re a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity.

Additional Information

This role is subject to mandatory background screening and regulatory approvals. As part of your employment with Aristocrat, you may be required to complete a criminal background check, submit fingerprints, and obtain licenses or registrations with applicable gaming regulatory authorities. Aristocrat operates in a highly regulated environment and holds licenses in over 340 gaming jurisdictions worldwide. To meet our global compliance obligations, you will be required to provide the disclosure of relevant personal and background information to government agencies, sovereign nations/tribal regulators, and other applicable gaming regulatory bodies. This is a condition of Aristocrat’s gaming licenses. The specific information required may vary depending on the jurisdiction and project assignment.

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. 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.