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
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Support and maintain production databases running on Amazon RDS, Aurora, and self-managed databases on EC2.
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Ensure database availability, integrity, and performance across multiple environments.
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Respond to database-related incidents, alerts, and service degradations.
🔍 Monitor, Troubleshoot & Optimize Performance
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Monitor database health, performance, capacity, and replication using CloudWatch, Performance Insights, and native database tools.
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Diagnose and resolve performance issues such as slow queries, locking, resource contention, and replication lag.
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Perform capacity planning and proactive tuning.
🔐 Security, Backup & Data Protection
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Enforce database security best practices (access controls, encryption at rest/in transit, credential management).
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Manage and validate backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures.
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Support compliance, audit, and data protection requirements.
⚙️ Automation & Infrastructure as Code (Incremental)
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Maintain and improve database provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code where applicable (Terraform, CloudFormation).
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Automate routine DBA tasks such as backups, patching coordination, health checks, and reporting.
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Reduce manual operations while ensuring operational safety.
📈 Change Management & Upgrades
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Plan and execute database upgrades, patching, and configuration changes with minimal service disruption.
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Coordinate changes with application, DevOps, and platform teams.
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Participate in release planning and change control processes.
📚 Documentation & Operational Hygiene
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Maintain accurate database documentation, schemas, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
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Ensure operational standards and best practices are documented and followed.
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Perform housekeeping activities to keep environments clean and supportable.
🤝 Collaborate Across Teams
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Work closely with application developers to support schema changes, query optimization, and release readiness.
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Partner with DevOps and Platform teams on availability, automation, and monitoring improvements.
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Provide database expertise during incidents and post-incident reviews.