Data Cloud Platform Engineer (DBA) (2)

🎯 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.