DBA Team Lead

About Us: 

Delasport is where technology meets the excitement of sports and gaming! As a proven innovator in iGaming software, we provide everything from platform development to player account management. Our platform is designed to make every player feel like the star of the show, with personalized experiences and cutting-edge technology at its heart.

Since our founding in 2010, we have won multiple international awards and have established a proven track record of excellence, stability, and overall success. This achievement only drives us to reach even greater heights. Currently, we are proud to have over 500 experts across various business fields and several offices in Bulgaria (Sofia and Plovdiv), Ukraine, and Malta.

About the role:

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible for the reliability, security, performance, and scalability of Delasport’s database platforms. You will be the subject-matter expert for our MySQL ecosystem, with a primary focus on large-scale, mission-critical on-premises environments.

You will work closely with Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams to deliver highly available and scalable database solutions. You will also support PostgreSQL as a secondary platform and contribute to our cloud database initiatives, including Google Cloud SQL.

In addition to your technical responsibilities, you will provide technical leadership to the DBA team, ensuring effective collaboration, prioritization, knowledge sharing, and alignment with the company’s technical and business objective.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Own the administration, optimization, and continuous improvement of large-scale MySQL environments, primarily hosted on-premises.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance for business-critical database services.
• Design, implement, and maintain replication, clustering, failover, load-balancing, and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Perform advanced performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, configuration tuning, and capacity planning.
• Develop, test, and maintain robust backup, recovery, and business-continuity procedures.
• Proactively monitor database health, identify bottlenecks, and drive improvements that reduce risk and downtime.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve data models, schema design, application database interactions, and release readiness.
• Define, document, and enforce database standards, operational procedures, security controls, and best practices.
• Lead root-cause investigations for database-related incidents and drive sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Automate recurring operational tasks and strengthen database observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Evaluate, support, and optimize managed database services, with Google Cloud SQL considered a strong advantage.
• Lead, mentor, and provide technical guidance to DBA team members, supporting
• their professional and technical development.
• Drive knowledge sharing, best-practice adoption, automation, and continuous
• improvement across the DBA team.

Employees may be required to participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring availability outside regular working hours to handle urgent issues as needed as per the On-call policy.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environments.
• Deep expertise in MySQL administration, architecture, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Strong experience operating large-scale on-premises MySQL deployments.
• Proven experience with MySQL replication, high-availability architectures, clustering, and failover technologies.
• Extensive knowledge of backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business-continuity strategies.
• Strong GNU/Linux administration skills and experience analyzing operating-system and database performance.
• Advanced SQL skills, including the ability to optimize complex, high-volume transactional workloads.
• Experience with database monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL administration, operations, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with database security, auditing, encryption, access control, privacy, and data-integrity practices.
• Experience investigating and resolving production incidents under pressure.
• Strong analytical, algorithmic, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills with the ability to work independently and take ownership of complex database cases.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong interest in developing in a people leadership direction, or proven experience in leading, mentoring, or coordinating technical teams.
• Strong communication, prioritization, delegation, collaboration, and decisionmaking skills, with the ability and willingness to grow into a Team Lead role.

Bonus Skills That Make You Even More Magical:

• Hands-on experience administering and optimizing Google Cloud SQL for MySQL.
• Experience migrating databases between on-premises and cloud environments.
• Broader familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and AWS services.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL replication, high availability, and advanced performance tuning.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and operational automation.
• Experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes.
• Practical scripting experience with Bash, Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Familiarity with version-control platforms such as GitHub and Bitbucket.
• Experience in high-volume transactional industries such as gaming, fintech, e-commerce, or SaaS.

 What We Offer:  

We’re not just about work, we are about creating a great place to grow, connect, and enjoy the journey. Here’s what you can expect when you join us:

• Competitive Salary Package: We value your skills, dedication, and contributions
• Time Off: Enjoy 21+ days of annual paid leave so you can rest, recharge, and come back inspired
• Bonus & Rewards: Performance-based annual bonuses
• Health & Wellness: Additional Health insurance including dental care; Co-funding a Multisport/Coolfit card to help you stay active
• Extra Benefits: Employee discounts at various retailers and a monthly allowance for public transportation
• Great Office Locations: Central office location in Sofia and Plovdiv
• Relax & Recharge Zone: Take a break with colleagues in our PlayStation and Pool Table – perfect for recharging during the day

Wait, there’s more: 

• Happy Hour Fridays: Every Friday we host themed Happy Hours with snacks, fun activities, and plenty of opportunities to connect and unwind with colleagues
• Multicultural Days: Celebrate diversity and experience the traditions, food, and cultures of teammates from around the world
• Massages at the Office: Weekly Free Recreational Massages to help relax during the workday
• Sports & Football Team: We regularly participate in various sports events and have our own Delasport Football Team, taking part in the IT League
• Bulgarian Language Lessons: Classes designed to facilitate smoother communication for non-native speakers.
• Office Library: Enjoy access to technical literature to expand your knowledge

Ready to Be Part of Something Big? 

If you’re excited to join a team that’s revolutionizing the iGaming world and want to make a real impact, apply today. We can’t wait to meet you!