Senior Database Administrator MySQL

Company Description

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Job Description

As a Senior Database Administrator in Sportradar, you will be part of Sportradar's global team. The team works closely with developers, security, DevOps, and Architects.

Sportradar invests heavily in automation and accessibility services. We are therefore looking for a new engineer to join a growing data team that will look after our central data stack. Our infrastructure consists of thousands of physical and virtual machines, includes managed services, databases, streaming services, Kubernetes clusters, and spans several physical data centers as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS).

You will work with the solutions of the future in the sports, media, and betting industry. You will collaborate with developers on technical architecture and the implementation
of new products and services.

THE CHALLENGE:

• Leading and shaping the database management activities 
• Managing the cloud migration project 
• Collaborating on technical architecture and implementation of new features and capabilities on our data platform
• Advising on a new tools and technologies that "make life easier"
• Keeping things running by continuous monitoring, alerting, and catching spots to improve

YOUR PROFILE:

• Previous experience as a MySQL administrator
• Excellent communication skills to cooperate with various internal departments
• Good level of communication in English
• Solid knowledge of SQL with a practical experience 
• Knowledge and experience with a scripting language (e.g. bash, python)
• Exposure to message queues and event streaming (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, MQTT)
• Proactive approach and drive to implement improvements

OUR OFFER:

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company
• Adapted training plan and continuous learning to maintain and develop the level of competence
• International environment, opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US)
• Be a part of a company, which culture promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise, and fun
   

We do not expect you to know all these technologies, but hope you want to learn! It is important what competence you have, but just as important is who you are as a person. At Sportradar, you will work in teams, so you must have good collaboration skills and want to be a team player. You are eager and have no problem taking the initiative if you see that something can be done differently or more efficiently. You are hungry to learn and have a positive attitude. Do you recognize yourself in this? Then we want to get to know you better!

Location

Hrubieszowska 2 5th floor, Warsaw , Poland