Database Administrator
The Database Administrator is responsible for setting up and maintaining the databases which are at the core of Betsson Group's Systems. The role requires a deep knowledge of the data model used to be able to effectively perform the duties and work closely together with both operations teams and developers to ensure the highest quality and performance.
The successful candidate will be involved in database administration, development, and technical support. This includes maintaining, monitoring, and supporting production and development databases and environments, troubleshooting various database issues, and applying high availability solutions. The role also involves writing, optimising, and maintaining stored procedures, performance tuning of T-SQL queries, and working in partnership with development teams to provide technical expertise for optimised and innovative solutions. Additionally, the role includes providing on-call support and participating in root cause analysis for production incidents.
- Maintain, monitor and support production and development of databases and environments.
- Monitor and troubleshoot database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlock issues, replication/log shipping issues, connectivity issues, security issues etc.
- Troubleshoot SQL Server related CPU, memory, I/O, diskspace and other resource contention.
- Apply high availability through backups, restores, DBCC commands, clustering, availability groups, replication.
- Implement operational automation.
- Install and configure new SQL Servers.
- Apply latest patches and updates.
- Planning System storage and partitioning.
- Write, optimise and maintain stored procedures.
- Performance tuning of T-SQL queries based on best practices.
- Ensure that the databases are optimised from a performance perspective.
- Index management, creation, storage, and integrity checks.
- Working in partnership with development teams and providing technical expertise to attain highly optimized and innovative solutions.
- Deploy database change scripts.
- Support developers on the most efficient database designs (tables, datatypes, stored procedures, functions, etc).
- Modelling of data optimized for read\write workloads.
- Provide on call support.
- Participate in root cause analysis for production incidents.
- Good experience with Administration of SQL Server Databases at least 3 years (required)
- Good experience with Administration of PostgreSQL Databases at least 3 years (required)
- High proficiency in coding and performance analysis of SQL queries (required)
- Strong experience with Linux and Windows Server Administration (required)
- Familiarity with Cloud Databases (AWS) (required)
- Exposure to data observability concepts (required)
- Experience with monitoring and Alerts tools (required)
- Experience with MySQL (nice-to-have)
- Experience with Snowflake (nice-to-have)
Betsson is a diversified, multinational gaming group whose history dates back to 1963 and which is now listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. The group employs around 3,000 people of more than 75 nationalities across over 20 locations; Betsson AB is registered in Stockholm, while its operational headquarters in Ta' Xbiex, Malta, run the day-to-day business. Through brands such as Betsson, Betsafe and NordicBet, it offers casino, sportsbook and other gaming products in regulated markets across Europe, the Americas and Central Asia. Its proprietary technology supports a scalable model serving both B2C customers and B2B partners, with responsible growth and customer protection central to its strategy.