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:
o Database provisioning
o Backup and recovery
o Replication, failover, and disaster recovery
o 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 for the Product Madness codebase, reviewing schema and query changes prior to release.
· Provide hands-on support through pairing, design reviews, and technical consultation.
Documentation & Best Practices
· Build and maintain high-quality, HLD and LLD documentation covering architecture, operations, and standard methodologies.
· delivering database services and guidelines to our internal customers
· Continuously improve team workflows, operational processes, and standards.
Leadership & Collaboration
· Guide engineers and DBAs, improving the overall database maturity of the organization.
· Lead by example in operational excellence, ownership, and technical rigor.
Required Experience & Skills
- Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments (Percona MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB)
Deep expertise in:
- MySQL internals
- MongoDB internals
- Replication and backup/recovery strategies
- Query optimization and performance tuning High-availability and scaling patterns
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Demonstrable experience operating databases at high efficiency and low latency.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, distributed environment.
- Strong proficiency in both written and spoken English communication.
Desirable / Bonus Experience
- MySQL clustering technologies (e.g. Galera Cluster).
- Monitoring tools such as Percona PMM.
- Practical experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
- Cloud platforms, especially GCP (Cloud SQL), with AWS as a plus.
- Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools:
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Helm
- Cloud SQL
- Postgress
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!
This job description may have been reviewed and enhanced using AI-assisted tools to improve clarity, consistency, and inclusivity. All final content, role requirements and hiring decisions remain subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.
We offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support your wellbeing, and recognise your contribution to our success. Our approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact. Your specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location.
Depending on your role and location, you may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.
Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.
Skills Required
- Significant production experience with MySQL in critical environments
- Deep expertise in MySQL internals
- Deep expertise in MongoDB internals
- Experience with replication and backup/recovery strategies
- Experience with query optimization and performance tuning
- Experience with high-availability and database scaling patterns
- Strong Linux administration skills
- Experience operating databases efficiently with low latency
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, distributed environment
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills
- Experience with MySQL clustering technologies such as Galera Cluster
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Percona PMM
- Practical experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB
- Experience with cloud platforms, especially GCP Cloud SQL; AWS is a plus
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Helm
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 — Healthcare coverage is described as robust, with medical, dental, and vision options that are frequently highlighted alongside wellness resources. Feedback suggests these benefits are a core strength of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer matching is commonly noted, with match levels reported around 4–5% depending on plan or period. This is seen as a solid foundation for long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave plus adoption and surrogacy assistance are referenced as part of the offering. These benefits contribute to a family-friendly reputation.
Aristocrat Insights
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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