Platform Engineer – AWS Infrastructure - Vancouver - PAD landscape

Description

Platform Engineer – AWS Infrastructure – Powering Gaming Experiences

At INTRALOT, we shape the future of gaming through innovation and technology. With a global presence and a people‑first strategy, we are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our operations team in Canada and help transform the gaming industry with scalable, reliable, and cutting‑edge systems.

Your Role: As a Platform Engineer – AWS Infrastructure, you will be responsible for the day‑to‑day operation, reliability, and evolution of an existing AWS infrastructure platform supporting production workloads. Your focus will be on stability, security, automation, and operational excellence, ensuring the platform remains robust, scalable, and easy to operate. The role is centered on running and improving shared AWS services.

Operate & Support Existing AWS Infrastructure

• Operate and support production AWS environments across multiple accounts.
• Maintain core AWS services including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and shared platform services.
• Support patch management using Ansible where appropriate.
• Respond to infrastructure‑related alerts, incidents, and service degradation.

Reliability, Monitoring & Incident Management

• Monitor platform health, availability, and capacity using CloudWatch and centralized observability tools.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues related to compute, networking, storage, or access control.
• Participate in incident response, root‑cause analysis, and post‑incident improvements.

Infrastructure as Code & Controlled Automation

• Maintain and evolve existing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
• Use Ansible for configuration management, operational automation, and standardization of system‑level changes where applicable (e.g., OS configuration, agents, operational tooling).
• Reduce manual configuration by bringing existing resources under version control.
• Apply changes through controlled CI/CD pipelines and change management processes.

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Enforce security and governance standards across AWS accounts.
• Manage IAM roles, policies, and least‑privilege access models.
• Automate security and configuration baselines using Ansible where appropriate.
• Support audits, compliance requirements, and security reviews.
• Log management for operations, troubleshooting, security, and compliance.

Operational Hygiene & Documentation

• Maintain accurate infrastructure documentation, diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Perform housekeeping activities to keep environments clean, consistent, and supportable.
• Ensure changes are documented, reviewed, and traceable.

Cross‑Team Collaboration

• Work closely with DevOps, SRE, security, and application team members to support platform needs.
• Provide infrastructure guidance and troubleshooting support to engineering teams.

What You'll Bring

Education & Experience

• A college degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience supporting production AWS infrastructure.

Technical Skills (AWS‑Focused)

• Core AWS Services: EC2, Auto Scaling, EBS/EFS/S3, IAM.
• Networking: VPC, subnets, route tables, NAT Gateways, ALB/NLB, Route 53.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (preferred) and/or AWS CloudFormation.
• Configuration & Automation: Ansible for system configuration, operational tasks, and baseline enforcement.
• Monitoring & Operations: CloudWatch, log aggregation, alerting.
• Security: IAM, security groups, encryption, account‑level guardrails.
• Automation: Git‑based workflows and CI/CD exposure.

Working Style & Mindset

• Operations‑focused with strong troubleshooting skills.
• Comfortable supporting and improving existing infrastructure.
• Automation‑minded but pragmatic and risk‑aware.
• Clear communicator with a documentation‑first approach.
• Team‑oriented and collaborative.
• Great communicator in English (Fluent/Native) and French (Fluent/optionally), able to coordinate across teams delivering thrilling player experiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience with multi‑account AWS environments and landing zones.
• Exposure to Kubernetes (EKS) or container platforms.
• Familiarity with SRE concepts (SLIs/SLOs, incident reviews).
• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator).

Why Join

• Take ownership of a mission‑critical AWS infrastructure platform.
• Improve reliability, security, and operational maturity.
• Work in a team focused on platform stability and enablement.
• Grow toward Senior Platform Engineer, SRE, or Cloud Architect roles.

Apply now and help us build the future of talent at INTRALOT.

About Us, a publicly listed company established in 1992, is a leading gaming solutions supplier and operator active in 40 regulated jurisdictions worldwide. With a global workforce of approximately 1,700 employees, INTRALOT is committed to redefining innovation and quality of services in the lottery and gaming sector, while supporting operators in raising funds for good causes. INTRALOT has been awarded the prestigious WLA Responsible Gaming Framework Certification by the World Lottery Association. We always act with integrity and enjoy what we do.

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.

Intralot, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer