Platform Engineer – AWS Infrastructure

Join INTRALOT as a Platform Engineer – AWS Infrastructure

🎯 At 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 Platform Engineer. 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 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. This role is part of the operations team and 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 Cloud Watch 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 Cloud Formation.
• 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 Dev Ops, 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 Cloud Formation.
• Configuration & Automation:
  Ansible for system configuration, operational tasks, and baseline enforcement.
• Monitoring & Operations:
  Cloud Watch, 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…