THE SCOPE
With 30 years of history, today Gaming1 is one of the international leaders in both land-based and online games of chance (casino games, sports betting and poker). Its evolution at the heart of innovation is accompanied by a diversification and specialization of positions, with the creation of new cutting-edge jobs. As part of its sustained growth, Gaming1 is looking for a Platform Engineer, with expertise in Data and Transport, to join its IT team.
The Delivery Platform cluster, part of our technology landscape, is responsible for providing the internal developer platform to our development community, where we focus on enabling technical capabilities in a self-service manner with a customer centric mindset.
Inside the Delivery Platform cluster, we are looking for someone who can manage and maintain our organization's databases, ensuring their performance, security, availability, and reliability. They should have a strong understanding of database architecture, design, and management, as well as experience with database software, such as PostgreSQL. Additionally, they should possess analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve database-related issues, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with other members of the organization.
You participate in the implementation of new, and innovation of existing capabilities within the GAMING1 ecosystem, both on premises and in AWS public cloud, using Infrastructure-as-Code, security best-practices, and CI/CD principles to reach the target architecture.
You will also be responsible for the operational management in ensuring the optimal functionality, reliability, performance, quality, and availability with an SRE mindset.
YOUR ROLE
List the responsibilities, daily tasks and long-term objectives.
- Manage and maintain the organization's PostgreSQL databases, ensuring their performance, security, availability, and reliability.
- Configure and optimize database servers and processes to ensure high levels of performance and availability, including managing backups, monitoring database health, and ensuring data integrity.
- Work closely with development teams to design and optimize database queries, and troubleshoot database-related issues as they arise.
- Monitor and maintain database security and access controls, including implementing appropriate permissions and encryption.
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and procedures, including backup and restoration processes.
- Stay up to date with new trends and technologies in database administration, PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ in particular, and make recommendations for improvements to database systems and processes.
