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Lead Database Administrator

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Job details

Full-time
£80,000 - £95,000 a year

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

Ansible
MongoDB
Continuous improvement
Terraform
Scripting
Linux
Clustering
MySQL
High availability

Full job description

About Us

Our mission is to dominate the betting and gaming industry on a global scale and we need the very best Tech talent to help us achieve this.

We recently migrated all of our customers onto our very own proprietary platform - so it's an exciting time to join us. With the help of our new platform, we're able to pioneer new products and drive more advanced, creative technologies. The result? Unrivalled experiences for millions of customers worldwide.

Betfred's Technology department is driven by innovation, and you'll be at the heart of unlocking our new platform's potential. So, if you want to help shape the future of betting and gaming, then it's to time to join us.

Job Purpose

The Lead DBA owns the architecture, operations and strategic direction of the database platforms. The role spans infrastructure, application and reliability engineering disciplines ensuring environments are secure, scalable and performant. The Lead DBA works closely with the Engineering Manager, architects and engineering teams to define standards, guide technical decisions and mentor the DBA team. This role is both strategic and hands-on delivering business-critical database services.

Job Duties

Lead the design and maintenance of highly available, fault-tolerant database infrastructure.

Plan for growth and scalability aligned with business and platform needs.

Evaluate and integrate emerging database technologies to improve performance and efficiency.

Ensure compliance with security, governance and regulatory requirements.

Manage resource utilisation across storage, compute, memory and networking.

Implement and validate replication, clustering and disaster recovery strategies.

Apply patches, upgrades and security hardening.

Monitor database health, capacity and performance proactively.

Collaborate with developers to optimise schema design, indexing and queries.

Support deployments, migrations and application-aligned changes.

Maintain data integrity and resilience across all workloads.

Troubleshoot complex database and application-facing issues.

Build and maintain CI/CD and automation pipelines.

Automate routine operations including backups, restores and patching.

Identify and remediate platform risks and points of failure.

Partner with DevOps, SRE and platform teams on operational maturity.

Define and enforce operational standards and best practices.

Mentor Senior and Junior DBAs.

Drive continuous improvement across database operations and tooling

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essentials:

Strong experience across relational and non-relational platforms (MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.).

Deep expertise in HA, replication, clustering and DR.

Strong Linux administration and advanced scripting skills.

Proven ability to solve complex performance issues.

Strong understanding of security, compliance and governance.

Experience leading teams and defining standards.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation and IaC (Ansible, Terraform).

Desirables

Experience with cloud or hybrid database platforms.

Familiarity with modern observability tooling.

Knowledge of sharding, partitioning and scale-out strategies.

Experience supporting application performance and database integration.

What is in it for me?

We offer a variety of competitive benefits, some of which vary depending on the role you’re recruited to. Some of what you can expect in this role includes:

A competitive rate of pay and pension contribution ( £80,000 - £90,000)

Generous discretionary bonus schemes, incentives and competitions

An annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service

Access to an online GP 24/7, 365 days a year for you and your immediate family.

Employee wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay

Long Service Recognition

Access to a pay day savings scheme, financial coach and up to 40% of your earned wage ahead of payday, through Wagestream.

For More information, visit our https://betfredcareers.com/why-join/

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