<p>Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platform which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.</p><p>The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.</p><p>We’re fortunate enough to have already built a capable and proven team of 500+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds with a common thirst for excellence and we are constantly looking for more talented individuals to power our growth and serve our users further via their grit and innovation.</p>

Sporty Group

Database Administrator - MySQL Specialist

OpsTech Backend Engineer

INT Senior Tech Talent Acquisition Specialist

Senior INT Commercial Talent Acquisition Specialist

INT Commercial Talent Acquisition Specialist

BG HR Lead

Social Media Manager, Nigeria

Social Media Manager (Swahili Speaking)

As a Database Administrator - MySQL Specialist at Sporty, you'll be responsible for the existing and new database infrastructure across multiple platforms, facilitating releases to new regions.  This role involves slow query monitoring, capacity adjustment, automation of deployments using Terraform, dashboard development, and handling on-call responsibilities.  The work includes managing MySQL and MongoDB databases, utilizing AWS services like RDS and Redshift.  You'll be working with a modern tech stack and have the freedom to introduce new technologies. The company serves tens of millions of weekly visitors and is looking for someone to help maintain and improve their database systems.

Brand Director

<div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div><b style="font-size: 10.5pt;">🚀 We’re on a mission to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone!</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Partnered with some of the World’s greatest Champions including Real Madrid FC, Michael Essien and Eder Militao, we’re on the lookout for some Champions of our own to be a part of some of the biggest, most exciting and most successful Online Gaming Brands in the World.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Sporty, Sportybet and SportyTV are the backbone of the Sporty Group portfolio. With hundreds of millions of visitors Globally, if you click ‘apply’, you’ll have the opportunity to be a part of something absolutely massive.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 10.5pt;">About the role</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">With tens of millions of visitors every week, we strive to be the best in the industry for our users. You’ll be responsible for taking ownership of our existing and new database infrastructure for multiple platforms and facilitating releases into new regions. We wrote our systems from scratch about 4 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old technologies. There’s also freedom to research and implement new technologies into our stack as you and the team see fit.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Your Day-to-day</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Take ownership and responsibility for our existing and new database infrastructure</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Slow query monitoring and database system capacity proactive adjustment</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Automating deployments, config management, and building infrastructure with Terraform</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Enhance our existing dashboards as well as develop new dashboards and alert mechanisms</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- As we deploy into new regions you’ll be facilitating the database side</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- On call responsibilities on a rotating pattern</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Our stack: MySQL, MongoDB, AWS EC2, Cloudwatch, RDS, Redshift, Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform, Python, Shell etc</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 10.5pt;">You should apply if you have</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- 4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Hands on experience with AWS RDS, Redshift</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Delivering quality documentation and operational runbooks</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Open mind and willing to take on new challenges in a rapidly growing organization</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Sporty is an English speaking working environment, so we are looking for English speakers</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Our Interview Process</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Our interview process involves 3 main stages:</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Hackerrank test (Maximum of 90 minutes)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- A call with a member of our Talent team</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Final interview with our Database Engineering team (You’ll meet with 3 engineers on separate occasions for 45 minutes each)</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">We can confidently say that we have a feedback loop of 24-48 hours on all stages, so you’ll never be left in the dark when you’re in process with us.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 10.5pt;">What’s in it for you</b></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">📍 Sporty is a 100% remote company in continuation of our sustainability pledge</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">💰 We have x4 bonuses every year</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">⏰ Our core working hours are 10am-3pm your local time zone with flexibility outside of this</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">🌍 1-2 Annual company retreats</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">💻 We want our teams to perform as best they can, so we’ll set you up with a top of the line Macbook</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to. So if you decide to join us on this amazing journey, we can guarantee a stable and solid working environment with some of the best team members around.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Equal opportunities for everyone</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">This position is open to people Globally.</span></div></div>undefinedundefinedundefined