Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

Playtech

Tallinn, Estonia

Job Description

Your influential mission. You will...

• Work with the company’s global database platform daily operations - from initial setup to tools development;
• Work with high-volume databases in a complex environment with many moving parts;
• Plan and execute all aspects of database administration to achieve maximum stability and availability; 
• Install and upgrade databases and high-availability solutions for databases; 
• Develop automation, monitoring and other tooling; 
• Participate in an on‑call rotation to support database‑related production incidents.

Qualifications

Components for success. You...

• Have expert-level knowledge in Oracle, PostgreSQL and Maria DB database administration;
• Bring knowledge and know-how of the IT field in general - specifically about network and operating systems (Linux/Unix;
• Are a true team player and open to new ways of doing things;
• Bring novel thinking and fresh ideas;
• Are challenged by problems - the more complex, the more interesting; 
• Are proactive - when you see something that's broken, it's only natural for you to get it fixed and find out the root causes;
• Strive to continuously expand your knowledge and have strong learning capabilities to support this; 
• Strong scripting ability (Python, Bash, or similar) to support tooling and automation workflows.

You'll get extra points for...

• Hands‑on experience with AWS database services;
• Experience running databases on Kubernetes using MariaDB or PostgreSQL operators.