Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, automation, security, optimization, and operational support of Mohegan's hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. The role supports Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, and other approved enterprise cloud technologies while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, compliance, resiliency, and business objectives.

This position partners with infrastructure, security, application development, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available cloud services. Cloud Engineer serves as a senior technical contributor in cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, disaster recovery, observability, and cloud financial management.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design, implement, and support enterprise cloud infrastructure across Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS, Google and hybrid environments.
• Develop cloud reference architectures, reusable patterns, standards, and guardrails aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
• Design solutions that meet requirements for scalability, availability, performance, security, compliance, and resiliency.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud-native technologies and services that support business and technology objectives.

• Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, monitoring, compliance validation, and operational workflows.
• Support platform engineering and self-service capabilities through standardized, secure deployment patterns.
• Develop automation using Power Shell, Python, Bash, Azure Automation, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, or equivalent tools.

• Support CI/CD pipeline design, implementation, governance, and optimization.
• Integrate security controls, automated testing, policy-as-code, and infrastructure validation into delivery pipelines.
• Partner with development teams to enable secure cloud-native deployment and operational practices.

• Implement cloud security controls using Zero Trust, least privilege, defense-in-depth, and secure-by-design principles.
• Collaborate with Information Security to improve cloud security posture and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
• Support identity governance, privileged access management, secrets management, encryption, data protection, and regulatory compliance.
• Assist with audits and control activities, including SOX, gaming regulatory, privacy, and internal security requirements.

• Monitor cloud services to ensure availability, performance, capacity, service-level objectives, and reliability.
• Develop dashboards, telemetry, logging, tracing, proactive alerting, and automated remediation capabilities.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions for recurring incidents.
• Participate in incident response, major incident management, and an on-call rotation for supported services.

• Design, maintain, and test cloud backup, high-availability, cyber-recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Validate that critical services meet approved recovery time and recovery point objectives.
• Maintain recovery runbooks and participate in scheduled recovery exercises and after-action reviews.

• Monitor and optimize cloud usage, commitments, licensing, storage, compute, and data transfer costs.
• Implement tagging, budgeting, forecasting, showback or chargeback, and cost-allocation standards.
• Partner with technology and business leaders to align cloud consumption with organizational priorities.

• Maintain architecture diagrams, technical standards, configuration documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge articles.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and cross-training to reduce key-person dependencies and improve team resiliency.
• Present technical recommendations, risks, roadmaps, and investment requirements to management and governance forums.

• Evaluate and responsibly use AI-assisted tools to improve engineering productivity, observability,…