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.
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
Basic knowledge of:
- Kibana
- Elasticsearch
- Grafana
- Splunk
- Other web-based monitoring and data analysis platforms.
Thrive in a culture that values...
- A professional and fun team environment, where we offer you proper training and knowledge sharing
- Your personal and professional growth
- Variety – no day is the same
- An active lifestyle and provide you with a well-being package
- Work-life balance, flexibility
- Fun and engaging company events
SPORTS UNIT
Playtech Sports specialises in the provision of online betting and gaming software to UK and global service providers. Headquartered in London and founded in 2005, our GenBet product provides operators with a robust and secure central customer management platform onto which any number of products can be added and managed. Sportsbook, Lottery, Pool Betting and Fixed-Odds Games modules allow the operator to tailor their online service whilst a comprehensive back office and reporting suite provides powerful tools for event and market management. Playtech Sports has been a part of Playtech since January 2012, meaning that existing and future customers now benefit from the industry leading GenBet product suite, delivered on Playtech's comprehensive IMS (information management solution).
Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.