Database Administrator – Payments
Summary
Database Administrator at Betsson Group in Budapest who sets up, monitors, and tunes SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases for payment systems — handling performance, replication, high availability, backups, and security — while supporting developers with schema design, stored procedures, and T-SQL optimization in PCI DSS-regulated payment environments.
- Setting up and maintaining databases for payment systems
- Maintaining, monitoring and supporting production and development of databases and environments
- Monitoring and troubleshooting database integrity, performance, blocking and deadlock, replication/log shipping, connectivity, and security issues
- Troubleshooting SQL Server related CPU, memory, I/O, disk space and other resource contention
- Applying high availability through backups, restores, DBCC commands, clustering, availability groups, replication
- Implementing operational automation
- Installing and configuring new SQL Servers
- Applying latest patches and updates
- Planning system storage and partitioning
- Writing, optimizing and maintaining stored procedures
- Performance tuning of T-SQL queries based on best practices
- Ensuring database performance optimization
- Index management, creation, storage, and integrity checks
- Working in partnership with development teams and providing technical expertise for optimized and innovative solutions
- Deploying database change scripts
- Supporting developers on efficient database designs
- Modelling data optimized for read-write workloads
- Experience in payments, FinTech, or financial services testing in PCI DSS-regulated environments
- Proficiency in SQL scripting including PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server for querying and analysing payment data
- .NET/C# experience
- Experience with Jira, source control systems, and browser console
- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team coordinating with multiple departments
- Skill in managing workload, prioritizing tasks, and adapting to dynamic environments
- Understanding of online entertainment and gambling industry
- Working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Being part of a business with 75% millennial workforce and 1700 employees across 7 offices
- Opportunity to work at Malta HQ with 900 employees