Cloud Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Join INTRALOT as a Platform Engineer - AWS Infrastructure – Powering Gaming Experiences!

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.

The platform includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems and an OpenShift container platform running on AWS EC2 instances, supporting critical application 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 focuses on operating and improving AWS-based infrastructure and container platforms that power our gaming services.

What You’ll Do

🔧 Operate & Support Existing AWS Infrastructure

• Operate and support production AWS environments across multiple accounts.

• Maintain core AWS services including EC2, networking, storage, IAM, and supporting infrastructure services.

• Support EC2-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instances that host application and platform components.

• Perform OS lifecycle management, patching, hardening, and configuration management for Linux systems.

• Support patch management and configuration automation using Ansible.

📦 Operate OpenShift Platform on AWS

• Support the OpenShift container platform deployed on AWS EC2 instances.

• Maintain and troubleshoot OpenShift cluster nodes, networking, storage integration, and workloads.

• Assist with cluster lifecycle activities, including node maintenance, upgrades, and configuration changes.

• Work with development teams to ensure containerized applications run efficiently and reliably on the platform.

• Troubleshoot issues related to cluster health, node resources, scheduling, networking, and platform services.

📈 Reliability, Monitoring & Incident Management

• Monitor AWS infrastructure and OpenShift cluster health using CloudWatch and centralized observability tools.

• Monitor node performance, container workloads, and platform components.

• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues related to compute, networking, storage, container runtime, and 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

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of experience supporting production AWS infrastructure.

🔧 Technical Skills

AWS Infrastructure

• Core AWS Services: EC2, Auto Scaling, EBS/EFS/S3, IAM

• Familiarity with container platform operations in AWS environments

• Networking: VPC, subnets, route tables, NAT Gateways, ALB/NLB, Route 53

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator)

Linux Systems

• Strong experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments

• OS configuration, patching, troubleshooting, and system hardening

• Familiarity with Linux networking, security, and system services

• Red Hat certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, OpenShift Administration)

Container Platform

• Hands-on experience supporting OpenShift clusters running on cloud infrastructure

• Understanding of cluster nodes, pods, networking, storage, and scheduling

• Experience supporting container platforms running on virtualized or cloud-based infrastructure

Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform (preferred) and/or AWS CloudFormation

• Ansible for configuration management, system automation, and operational tasks

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).

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: INTRALOT, 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 redefine 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.

 Why Join Us:

💸 A competitive compensation package combined with additional benefits.

💻 Hybrid working model.

🏥 Private Insurance for you and your family.

📚 An extensive training program upon induction and throughout employment.

🚀 Exceptional opportunities to learn and develop in a multinational environment.

🌎 Prospects for professional growth both locally and globally.

Employment Eligibility Verification 

Must possess valid documentation to establish identity and Canadian 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.