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.
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.
Key Responsibilities
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:
Database provisioning
Backup and recovery
Replication, failover, and disaster recovery
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 ...
Senior MySQL Database Administrator (DBA) in East Kilbride employer: Aristocrat
Aristocrat is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and inclusive work culture, offering employees the chance to thrive in a hybrid environment. With a strong focus on professional development, you will have ample opportunities to mentor fellow engineers and lead innovative projects while staying at the forefront of automation technology. Located in the UK, our team enjoys a collaborative atmosphere that encourages creativity and growth, making it a rewarding place to build your career.
