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Join INTRALOT as a Data Cloud Platform Engineer (DBA) - AWS Infrastructure
At INTRALOT, we shape the future of gaming through innovation and technology. Our global presence, diverse culture, and dynamic teams set the foundation for a people‑first strategy. We’re looking for a Data Cloud Platform Engineer (DBA). Are you a passionate professional ready to take the next step in your career? At Intralot Canada we're transforming the gaming industry with scalable, reliable, and cutting‑edge systems.
Here’s your chance to make a difference and grow with a dynamic team that thrives on innovation and collaboration
As a Data Cloud Platform Engineer
, you will be responsible for the day‑to‑day operation, stability, and continuous improvement of existing database platforms running on AWS
. You will ensure databases remain secure, highly available, performant, and recoverable
, supporting production workloads and business‑critical applications.
This role focuses on operational excellence, troubleshooting, automation, and incremental optimization
, working closely with Dev Ops, Platform, and application teams.
- Support and maintain production databases running on Amazon RDS, Aurora, and self‑managed databases on EC2
. - Ensure database availability, integrity, and performance across multiple environments.
- Respond to database‑related incidents, alerts, and service degradations.
- Monitor database health, performance, capacity, and replication using Cloud Watch, Performance Insights, and native database tools
. - Diagnose and resolve performance issues such as slow queries, locking, resource contention, and replication lag.
- Perform capacity planning and proactive tuning.
- Enforce database security best practices (access controls, encryption at rest/in transit, credential management).
- Manage and validate backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Support compliance, audit, and data protection requirements.
- Maintain and improve database provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code where applicable (Terraform, Cloud Formation).
- Automate routine DBA tasks such as backups, patching coordination, health checks, and reporting.
- Reduce manual operations while ensuring operational safety.
- Plan and execute database upgrades, patching, and configuration changes with minimal service disruption.
- Coordinate changes with application, Dev Ops, and platform teams.
- Participate in release planning and change control processes.
- Maintain accurate database documentation, schemas, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
- Ensure operational standards and best practices are documented and followed.
- Perform housekeeping activities to keep environments clean and supportable.
- Work closely with application developers to support schema changes, query optimization, and release readiness.
- Partner with Dev Ops and Platform teams on availability, automation, and monitoring improvements.
- Provide database expertise during incidents and post‑incident reviews.
- A College Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in Database Administration supporting production systems.
- AWS Databases
:
Amazon RDS, Aurora (MySQL/Postgre
SQL), self‑managed DBs on EC2. - Database Engines
:
MySQL, Postgre
SQL, Oracle, SQL Server (one or more). - Monitoring & Performance
:
Cloud Watch, Performance Insights, query analysis tools. - Backup & Recovery
:
Automated backups, snapshots, point‑in‑time recovery, DR testing. - Security
: IAM integration, encryption, secrets management. - Automation & IaC
:
Terraform / Cloud Formation exposure preferred.
- Operations‑driven with strong troubleshooting skills.
- Detail‑oriented and reliability‑focused.
- Comfortable supporting existing/legacy database environments.
- Automation‑minded and improvement‑oriented.
- Clear communicator with a documentation‑first…
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