Data Cloud Platform Engineer (DBA)

🎯 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

Your Role:

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 DevOps, Platform, and application teams.

🛠️ Operate & Support Existing AWS Databases

• 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, Troubleshoot & Optimize Performance

• Monitor database health, performance, capacity, and replication using CloudWatch, 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.

🔐 Security, Backup & Data Protection

• 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.

⚙️ Automation & Infrastructure as Code (Incremental)

• Maintain and improve database provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code where applicable (Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Automate routine DBA tasks such as backups, patching coordination, health checks, and reporting.

• Reduce manual operations while ensuring operational safety.

📈 Change Management & Upgrades

• Plan and execute database upgrades, patching, and configuration changes with minimal service disruption.

• Coordinate changes with application, DevOps, and platform teams.

• Participate in release planning and change control processes.

📚 Documentation & Operational Hygiene

• 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.

🤝 Collaborate Across Teams

• Work closely with application developers to support schema changes, query optimization, and release readiness.

• Partner with DevOps and Platform teams on availability, automation, and monitoring improvements.

• Provide database expertise during incidents and post-incident reviews.