Staff Database Engineer
Sportradar is looking for a Staff Database Engineer to join the Managed Sportsbook Services team. This role involves taking a hands-on approach to the design, administration, and support of database systems across development, test, and production environments.
The successful candidate will take ownership of complex technical tasks, including incident resolution and technical implementations. They will work closely with engineers, project teams, and stakeholders to ensure the delivery of robust, secure, and high-performing database services capable of handling high transaction volumes.
- Take ownership of complex database activities including performance tuning, troubleshooting, migrations, and architecture design.
- Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex incidents, including performance degradation, locking and blocking issues, and data integrity problems.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support critical production systems.
- Promote and apply best practices in database administration, tuning, query optimisation, documentation, and automation.
- Perform hands-on installation, configuration, tuning, patching, and upgrading of Oracle 12c/18c/19c on Linux and Windows platforms.
- Ensure optimal performance and availability through proactive monitoring and tuning.
- Design, implement, and maintain backup and recovery strategies using RMAN and Data Guard.
- Create and maintain operational documentation and configuration standards.
- Analyse and optimise SQL queries using execution plans, AWR/ASH reports, SQL Trace, and Oracle Diagnostics Pack.
- Identify and remediate inefficient SQL, poor indexing strategies, and suboptimal optimizer statistics.
- Investigate and resolve locking, blocking, and deadlock scenarios, including root cause analysis and long-term preventative measures.
- Work with application and engineering teams to improve query design, schema structures, and transaction handling.
- Tune memory structures (SGA/PGA), I/O, and resource usage to support high transaction volumes and low-latency workloads.
- Design and implement cloud-based database solutions using AWS RDS and OCI DBaaS.
- Perform hands-on migrations from on-premises to cloud environments using tools such as Oracle GoldenGate.
- Monitor and optimise cloud resource utilisation for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
- Implement and maintain database security controls including auditing, encryption, and access management.
- Carry out patching and vulnerability remediation in collaboration with infrastructure and security teams.
- Ensure systems meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
- Define and track technical KPIs related to database uptime, performance, reliability, and query efficiency.
- Use tools such as Oracle Diagnostics Pack, OEM, Zabbix, and Grafana to monitor system health and identify performance bottlenecks.
- Perform detailed root cause analysis for performance incidents, including SQL regressions, deadlocks, and resource contention.
- Implement permanent fixes and automation to prevent recurrence of operational issues.
- Senior-level Oracle DBA experience (required).
- Strong hands-on experience in Oracle 12c/18c/19c (required).
- Experience with container/pluggable and autonomous databases (required).
- Track record of delivering in high-availability environments (required).
- Experience working collaboratively within DBA or infrastructure teams (required).
- Experience supporting less experienced colleagues (required).
- Experience working across on-prem and cloud platforms, including AWS and Oracle Cloud (required).
- Deep knowledge of backup, recovery, security, and performance tuning best practices (required).
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.