IT Cloud Engineer

GENERAL SUMMARY

The Cloud Engineer role focuses on the design, implementation, and management of secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud platforms across AWS and Azure environments. This position supports core infrastructure and architecture initiatives while enhancing engineering practices in areas such as networking, identity management, observability, and security. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining secure production environments with an emphasis on Kubernetes, identity-based access, and DevSecOps methodologies. The role also involves managing resilient EKS platforms, multi-cluster configurations, GitOps workflows, admission controls, network policies, and comprehensive identity frameworks.

FOUR DIAMOND SERVICE AGREEMENT

All Team Members will display a Four Diamond commitment to Customer Service through the delivery and maintenance of the Quality Standards established by Pechanga Resort Casino (PRC).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and Build : Multi-account / subscription landing zones, VPC / VNet topologies, private connectivity (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink / Private Endpoint, VPN / Direct Connect / ExpressRoute) and secure baseline controls
• Platform Ops : Run production environments (patching, backups, DR, autoscaling, capacity planning, OS / hypervisor images, AMIs / VM images)
• Identity & Security : Implement least-privilege IAM / Entra ID, SSO, Conditional Access, secrets management (AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault) and policy guardrails (SCPs, Azure Policy)
• Networking : Build resilient L3 / L7 routing, load balancing (ALB / NLB, Azure LB / App GW), DNS, TLS and service-to-service connectivity (PrivateLink, VNet peering, TGW)
• Observability : Standardize logging / metrics / tracing (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor / Log Analytics), create SLOs / dashboards and incident response runbooks
• Author high-fidelity analytics (KQL) mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, tune noisy rules, implement UEBA and wire SOAR / playbooks for auto-containment (isolate instance, block token, rotate keys, disable user)
• Normalize / ingest logs from cloud control planes, EDR, firewalls, API gateways, containers and serverless into SIEM
• Shift-left controls in CI / CD (GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps)
• Lead Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting)
• Lead efforts around observability, policy enforcement, cost optimization and RBAC / security hardening within the Kubernetes cluster
• Support CI / CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment
• Ability to troubleshoot issues related to networking, storage, interdependencies, security, etc.
• Building highly available, cost efficient, fault tolerant and scalable distributed systems
• Ensure the stability, integrity and efficient operation of the infrastructure
• Manage Linux based tools, position requires experience with Linux and scripting
• Writing and enforcement of security policies in a cloud environment
• Assist in reviewing logs, writing alerts and tag management
• Configure and maintain permission sets and access privileges to all cloud resources
• Continuously manage the configuration of all AWS Org environments and AWS services

Accountability : This position has no supervisory responsibilities. The Team Member is responsible for protecting the assets of PRC.

QUALIFICATIONS AND GUIDELINES

EXPERIENCE / TRAINING / EDUCATION : Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, computer science or related field; and a minimum of (7) years or more of relevant work experience; or Equivalent combination of education and progressive, relevant and direct experience may be considered in lieu of minimum educational / experience requirements indicated above.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS : This position requires the ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals. This position also requires the ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the community. The position also requires the ability to write justification and recommendations along with the ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and / or boards of directors as required.

REASONING ABILITY : The position requires the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. This position also requires the ability to accurately interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

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DISCLAIMER :

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.