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.
- 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. EEO M/F/D/V
World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
Robust benefits package
Global career opportunities
Our Values
All about the Player
Talent Unleashed
Collective Brilliance
Good Business Good Citizen
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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.
Skills Required
- Significant production experience with MySQL
- Deep expertise in MySQL internals and performance tuning
- Strong Linux administration skills
- Experience with MySQL clustering technologies
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially GCP and AWS
Aristocrat Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Aristocrat and has not been reviewed or approved by Aristocrat.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage offers multiple Aetna options with preventive care fully covered and $0 in‑network outpatient mental health visits, plus employer‑paid premiums on at least one dental and one vision plan. Feedback suggests first‑day eligibility and HSA funding increase perceived value.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave provides up to 12 weeks for primary caregivers and 10 days for secondary caregivers, with adoption/surrogacy reimbursement and access to Lyra sessions. Feedback suggests these supports materially enhance family and mental wellbeing.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — The SuperShare program matches employee share purchases with free shares up to a defined annual limit, with clear enrollment windows and a two‑year vest. Feedback suggests this structure delivers uncommon ownership value compared with standard ESPPs.
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What We Do
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an ASX20 listed company and one of the world’s leading providers of gaming solutions. We’re licensed in over 300 jurisdictions and operate in over 90 countries around the world. We’re also proud to have a team of over 6500 employees that deliver outstanding results by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity and technology each day. We offer a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, social gaming and casino management systems, but it doesn’t stop there. Despite our global presence and exponential growth, we remain an ideas company at heart that is committed to delivering outstanding results for our customers and players and an unparalleled experience for our employees, who have the opportunity to grow, be inspired and be the best they can be. Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us to live our mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play – every day. Come and join us – let’s play!
Why Work With Us
Individually we’re great, but together we’re brilliant. Our employees are the beating heart of our business and we attract the best people in the industry thanks to our unique and inspiring culture. Come and join the team and help bring joy to life through the power of play.
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