Senior Database Administrator

About the Position

Senior Database Administrator

Porto, Portugal

Permanent

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About the Company

Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. We operate at scale as part of Flutter Entertainment, aiming to become the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming. With over 14 million monthly customers worldwide, we are committed to delivering innovative products and platforms.

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Responsibilities

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will:

• Provide operational administration and ownership of distributed NoSQL database clusters, search and indexing platforms, and distributed coordination services.
• Configure environments according to intended purpose, workload, and operational requirements.
• Perform performance tuning, data retention and lifecycle management, and infrastructure scaling and growth planning.
• Plan, implement, and test disaster recovery and backup strategies.
• Maintain compliance with data retention, auditability, and operational governance requirements.
• Proactively monitor platform health, improve alerting and observability, and lead incident investigation, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Support infrastructure provisioning, automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD integration across cloud infrastructure.
• Lead platform migrations, upgrades, and technology lifecycle management with minimal disruption to delivery teams.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on operational readiness reviews for new services.
• Define, maintain, and enforce operational standards across all environments.
• Participate in incident response and problem management, including post-incident analysis.

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Requirements

• Strong, hands-on experience administering large-scale distributed database clusters in production environments.
• Practical experience with search/indexing platform operations, tuning, and maintenance.
• Experience managing distributed coordination services.
• Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure and cloud operations.
• A DevOps mindset, with experience in automation and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Strong understanding of scalability, performance, resilience, and high-availability principles.
• Experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience operating business-critical, high-availability production platforms.
• Ability to work confidently across multiple engineering domains and stakeholders.

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Nice to Have

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A proactive, self-motivated approach, able to work independently and manage multiple priorities within deadlines.
• An operational ownership mindset - proactively identifying risks, recommending improvements, and driving platform maturity.
• Objective, impartial decision-making based on clear criteria.
• Openness to differing perspectives and the flexibility to adapt your approach to achieve the best outcome.
• A commitment to knowledge sharing and continuous improvement, helping build an operationally resilient and sustainable platform function.

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We Offer

At Blip, we offer a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone's unique strengths and perspectives are valued. We are committed to providing amazing perks and benefits to our employees.

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Equal Opportunities

At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply. If you need any adjustments to apply for the position, please send an email to [email protected].

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