Senior Database Administrator

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Our client designs, builds and delivers compelling and complex digital gaming solutions for lotteries around the world helping them do what they do best: create winners and support communities. What’s their secret for leveraging digital impact for their clients? Years of experience in the industry, an extensive knowledge base, and a diversely talented team. Their collective expertise enables their clients to reach new players, expand their brand engagement and build long-term growth through sustainable and impactful technical solutions.

What sets them apart is their ability to seamlessly engineer a technical solution to meet a client’s vision – and to have fun while we do it. Their ethos is built on trust and teamwork: two core values that empower their team to be trailblazers and ultimately underpin everything they do. They have teams in Greece, the UK, and Ireland working together to achieve common goals. They are a learning environment, with multiple opportunities for growth and development, and they will support your career path through actual projects, coaching, and 360 feedback. They are proud of where they are today, but they’re still growing, which means they need more brilliant people who share the same values.

Do you want to join them on the next part of their exciting journey?

The team

In Platform Engineering, they focus on building self-service tools and high-performance platforms that scale, supporting all their customers and products. They empower their engineers and operations teams to take control of their own work and provide the resources they need to work efficiently and effectively. They aim to provide golden paths with recommended tools and best practices built-in, increasing developer velocity while preserving developer autonomy.

The role

As an experienced/senior database administrator, you will be acting as the technical authority for their database systems, both in production and non-production environments. Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Optimizing database performance through indexing and query optimization techniques
• Collaborating with software engineering in designing, updating, and implementing database schemas
• Designing and implementing database monitoring
• Reviewing performance logs and metrics and suggesting improvements
• Collaborating with the software delivery teams to ensure database-related improvements and enhancements are prioritized as part of their sprints
• Working with the rest of Platform Engineering and other teams to schedule, organize and perform database upgrades keeping their systems up to date
• Writing technical documentation, including runbooks and incident models for the Support teams, and maintaining knowledge of new technologies and updates for their supported databases
• Mentoring/training engineers in writing performant queries and designing systems/schemas that scale
• Acting as an escalation contact for high-impact production issues, including out-of-hours
• Perform tests and evaluations regularly to ensure data security, privacy, and integrity

Requirements

This role is perfect for you if you have

• At least 5 years of experience supporting busy transactional PostgreSQL systems
• Proven record of acting at a senior level
• Troubleshooting and performance analysis
• Performing schema reviews
• Mentoring engineering and other technical teams in dos and don’ts
• Automation of database installations, configuration, and tuning

Must have 

• Extensive knowledge of at least one currently supported PostgreSQL version
  (<= 11.x)
• In-depth theoretical knowledge of database systems including but not limited to indexes, partitioning, transactions, storage, replication, networking, authentication, clustering, and sharding
• Excellent knowledge of database backup and recovery
• A demonstrable, good level of knowledge in the following areas
  • Linux, terminal, and command line tools
  • Network protocols; HTTP/HTTPS and SSH are a must
  • Scripting skills (any of Go, Python, Bash, ansible)
  • Linux Containers, Docker, and associated ecosystem of tools
  • GitOps (Automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure as code)
• Excellent English language skills

Good to have

• Knowledge of newer versions of PostgreSQL (14 and 15), benefits, improvements, and added functionalities compared to previous versions
• Cloud technologies, especially AWS RDS, AWS Aurora, and other AWS
• Working knowledge of other database systems both RDBMS and NoSQL (Oracle, DB2, Cassandra, Redis)
• Programming experience/background in a major programming language
• Kubernetes
• Industry-standard tools and technologies like Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Graylog, Grafana, Kibana, or similar

Benefits

They are an energetic group of passionate professionals that will support your talent, innovation, and curiosity! You will be given an environment full of challenges to flourish in. By joining their team, you will enjoy benefits that make you more productive and contribute to your development:

• Attractive salary and a bonus plan
• Health insurance plan including dependents
• Well-being allowance
• Biannual Developmental 360° feedback framework
• Coaching sessions
• Continuous Training
• Extensive leave plan (annual/sick)
• Employee Assistance Program with specialized Counsellors / Licensed Psychologists
• Enjoyable and stable working environment
• Flexible working arrangements (fully remote/hybrid)