About the job
Join INTRALOT as a Data Cloud Platform Engineer (DBA) focusing on AWS Infrastructure!
At INTRALOT, we are redefining the gaming landscape through advanced technology and innovative solutions. Our global footprint, vibrant culture, and agile teams lay the groundwork for a strategy centered around our people. We're on the lookout for a Data Cloud Platform Engineer (DBA). Are you an enthusiastic professional eager to elevate your career? At Intralot Canada, we are revolutionizing the gaming sector with dependable, scalable, and state-of-the-art systems. This is your opportunity to contribute significantly and evolve with a team that values creativity and teamwork.
Your Role:
As a Data Cloud Platform Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to oversee the daily operations, stability, and enhancement of our existing database platforms deployed on AWS. You will ensure that our databases are secure, highly available, efficient, and recoverable, thereby supporting production workloads and mission-critical applications.
This role emphasizes operational excellence, troubleshooting, automation, and incremental optimization, necessitating close collaboration with DevOps, Platform, and application teams.
Your Responsibilities:
- Operate & Support Existing AWS Databases:
- Maintain and support production databases hosted on Amazon RDS, Aurora, and self-managed databases on EC2.
- Guarantee database availability, integrity, and performance across diverse environments.
- React promptly to database-related incidents, alerts, and service disruptions.
- Monitor, Troubleshoot & Optimize Performance:
- Oversee database health, performance, capacity, and replication using CloudWatch, Performance Insights, and native database tools.
- Identify and rectify performance bottlenecks such as slow queries, locking, resource contention, and replication lag.
- Conduct capacity planning and proactive performance tuning.
- Security, Backup & Data Protection:
- Implement database security best practices (access controls, encryption at rest/in transit, credential management).
- Manage and validate backup, restore, and disaster recovery protocols.
- Ensure compliance with audit and data protection mandates.
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code:
- Enhance database provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code practices where applicable (e.g., Terraform).

