Data Cloud Platform Engineer

Join Bally’s Intralot as a Data Cloud Platform Engineer (DBA) - AWS Infrastructure

At Bally’s 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 Bally’s 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.

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.