Database Administrator - MySQL Specialist

Reposted 13 Days Ago
9 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Mid level
Sports
The Role
Responsible for managing the database infrastructure, monitoring queries, automating deployments, enhancing dashboards, and facilitating database operations as the company expands into new regions.
Summary Generated by Built In
Sporty Group

Partnered with some of the World’s greatest Champions including Real Madrid FC, Michael Essien and Eder Militao, we’re on the lookout for some Champions of our own to be a part of the 'Top Ranked Fastest Growing and Most Successful Online Gaming Brand in the World'. Home to SportyBet, SportyTV, Sporty.com, Football.com and the newly launched SportyFM, we continue to lead with innovation and exclusive sports content.

Sporty is expanding and we're building the world's go to platform for everyday entertainment.

About the role

With tens of millions of visitors every week, we strive to be the best in the industry for our users. You’ll be responsible for taking ownership of our existing and new database infrastructure for multiple platforms and facilitating releases into new regions. We wrote our systems from scratch about 4 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old technologies. There’s also freedom to research and implement new technologies into our stack as you and the team see fit.

Our Stack

MySQL, MongoDB, AWS EC2, Cloudwatch, RDS, Redshift, Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform, Python, Shell

What you'll be doing

  • Take ownership and responsibility for our existing and new database infrastructure
  • Slow query monitoring and database system capacity proactive adjustment
  • Automating deployments, config management, and building infrastructure with Terraform
  • Enhance our existing dashboards as well as develop new dashboards and alert mechanisms
  • As we deploy into new regions you’ll be facilitating the database side
  • On call responsibilities on a rotating pattern

What you'll bring

  • 4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems
  • Hands on experience with AWS RDS, Redshift
  • Delivering quality documentation and operational runbooks
  • Open mind and willing to take on new challenges in a rapidly growing organization
  • Sporty is an English speaking working environment, so we are looking for English speakers

What’s In It For You

📍 Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
💰 A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
🌴 28 days paid annual leave
⏰ Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
📝 Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
💻 Top of the line equipment
🌍 Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview Process

Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team 
Online assessment via Hackerrank
Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)

Personalised Support

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you need any adjustments or accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Your Move

If you're excited about this role, even if you don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. We understand candidates may hesitate to apply if they don't meet all requirements, however your unique perspective is what helps us innovate and grow together.

If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.

Top Skills

Aws Ec2
Cloudwatch
Grafana
MongoDB
MySQL
Prometheus
Python
Rds
Redshift
Shell
Terraform
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The Company
London
326 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platform which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.

The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.

We’re fortunate enough to have already built a capable and proven team of 500+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds with a common thirst for excellence and we are constantly looking for more talented individuals to power our growth and serve our users further via their grit and innovation.

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