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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 energetic 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.

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.

What You’ll Bring

Education & Experience

- A College Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in Database Administration supporting production systems.

Technical Skills (AWS-Focused)

- AWS Databases: Amazon RDS, Aurora (MySQL/PostgreSQL), self-managed DBs on EC2.
- Database Engines: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server (one or more).




- Monitoring & Performance: CloudWatch, 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 / CloudFormation exposure preferred.

Mindset & Working Style

- 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 mindset.
- Fluent in English and French (Fluent/optionally), able to coordinate across teams delivering thrilling player experiences.

Nice to Have

- Experience with high-availability and multi-AZ architectures.
- Exposure to database replication and migration strategies.
- Familiarity with SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident management).
- AWS certifications (e.g., Database Specialty, Solutions Architect).

Why Join Us

- A Competitive Compensation Package Combined With Additional Benefits.
- Hybrid working model.
- Private Insurance for you and your family.
- An extensive training program upon induction and throughout employment.
- Exceptional opportunities to learn and develop in a multinational environment.
- Prospects for professional growth both locally and globally.

Employment Eligibility Verification

Must possess valid documentation to establish identity and U.S. employment eligibility.

Security Requirements

Submission to, and ability to pass, a thorough pre-employment background check by the required State or District Lottery and Intralot, Inc. is a requirement of employment. A pre-employment drug screening is also a requirement.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Intralot, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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