Senior Database Administrator

Playtech

Latsia, Cyprus

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Playtech Sports unit is looking for a highly skilled Senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) to join our Database Services team. The role requires a highly skilled DBA with strong expertise in Oracle database architecture, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability solutions, database patching, capacity planning, and production support. The ideal candidate will have experience working in large-scale, high-volume enterprise environments and will be comfortable collaborating with development, infrastructure, and application support teams.

Job Description

Your influential mission. You will...

Monitor database health, performance, and availability by identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in complex production environments while ensuring business continuity requirements are met;
Perform regular health checks and vulnerability assessments while performing proactive capacity planning and database optimization activities;
Ensure database security standards and best practices are implemented and maintained;
Plan and execute database migrations, upgrades, and platform refreshes;
Diagnose and resolve critical production incidents within agreed SLAs;
Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell, Python, PL/SQL, or similar technologies;
Improve operational efficiency through automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Qualifications

Components for success. You have...

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience;
Minimum 5+ years of hands-on Oracle DBA experience;
Minimum 2+ years managing Oracle Database 19c environments;
Experience supporting large-scale production systems with high availability requirements.

Extensive knowledge of

Oracle Database 19c;
Oracle RAC;
Oracle ASM;
RMAN Backup & Recovery;
Database Security and Auditing;
Performance Tuning and Optimization;
Partitioning;
SQL and PL/SQL.

Experience with

Linux administration;
Shell scripting;
Database upgrades and migrations;
Capacity planning;
Monitoring and alerting platforms.

You'll get extra points for...

Any experience in the betting industry and betting systems will be considered an advantage;
Database administration experience with PostgreSQL;
Backup/recovery, replication, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of PostgreSQL environments;
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP);
Experience with Google BigQuery.