Database Administrator

Location: Malta Are you passionate about database technologies, performance optimization and finding smarter ways to make systems more reliable and efficient? We're looking for a Database Administrator to join our Data & AI organization, helping operate, optimize and continuously improve the database platforms supporting our international business. You'll work with technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and AWS , ensuring our databases remain reliable, performant and highly available while driving improvements in operational excellence, observability and automation. This role goes beyond traditional database administration. We encourage our engineers to challenge existing practices, introduce proactive monitoring, automate repetitive tasks and implement improvements that make our database environments more resilient and easier to operate. You'll collaborate with experienced engineering, infrastructure and operations teams, applying your expertise while expanding your knowledge of modern database technologies and cloud environments. We're looking for strong database fundamentals, hands-on production experience, technical curiosity and a proactive mindset focused on reliability and continuous improvement. A taster of what you will be involved with: Database Platform Operations: Ensure the reliability, performance and availability of our production database environments, supporting business-critical systems and services. Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement: Drive improvements in database operations through standardization, preventive maintenance, better operational practices and reduction of recurring issues. Observability, Monitoring and Alerting: Enhance visibility into database health and performance by developing meaningful monitoring, actionable alerts and proactive issue detection capabilities. Database Performance Optimization: Analyze and optimize SQL queries, execution plans, indexes and database configurations to improve performance, scalability and resource efficiency. Automation and Innovation: Develop scripts, automated checks and AI-assisted solutions to reduce manual effort, improve consistency and make database operations more efficient. High Availability, Recovery and Modernization: Maintain and improve backup, recovery and high-availability capabilities while contributing to database upgrades, migrations and platform modernization. Collaboration and Production Support: Work closely with development, infrastructure and operations teams to support database changes, investigate complex issues and improve reliability, including participation in a scheduled out-of-hours on-call rotation. What we are looking for: We value strong database engineering fundamentals, practical experience and problem-solving ability over expertise in every technology we use. Must haves: Hands-on experience administering relational databases in production environments, particularly Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or a comparable platform. Strong SQL skills , including query optimization, execution plan analysis, indexing strategies and performance troubleshooting. Good understanding of database administration principles, including configuration, maintenance, capacity management and performance optimization. Practical knowledge of database backup and recovery, data integrity and high-availability concepts. Experience monitoring and troubleshooting production databases, with an understanding of database health, performance metrics, alerting and proactive issue detection. Familiarity with database security fundamentals, access control and operational best practices. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ownership, and good English communication and collaboration skills. Nice to have: Experience with cloud database technologies and data platforms, such as AWS RDS, Snowflake or similar solutions. Database replication, clustering, high-availability configurations and disaster recovery solutions. Improving database observability, implementing actionable alerts and driving proactive reliability improvements. Scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash or similar languages. Linux or Windows Server environments supporting relational databases. Database upgrades, migrations, infrastructure modernization or CI/CD practices. What we offer Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in. Challenge accepted? By submitting your application, you understand that your personal data will be processed as set out in our Privacy Policy