IT Cloud Engineer - Requisition

General Summary

Seeking a Cloud Engineer with deep experience in both AWS and Azure to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, cost‑efficient cloud platforms. You’ll work core infrastructure, guide architecture, and level‑up engineering practices across networking, identity, observability, and security. The Cloud Engineer is responsible for creating a secure path to production across AWS and Azure centered on Kubernetes, identity‑first access, and Dev Sec Ops .

You’ll design and operate resilient EKS platforms of multi‑cluster, Git Ops, admission control, network policies, and end‑to‑end identity patterns. This position is open to being remote (California only), however it may require occasional on‑site work.

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).

• Design and Build:
  Multi‑account/subscription landing zones, VPC/VNet topologies, private connectivity (Transit Gateway, Private Link/Private Endpoint, VPN/Direct Connect/Express Route), 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 , 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 (Private Link, VNet peering, TGW).
• Observability:
  Standardize logging/metrics/tracing (Cloud Watch, 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 (Git Hub Actions and Azure Dev Ops).
• 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 Git Ops‑based deployments.
• 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.

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Incumbent is responsible for protecting the assets of Pechanga Resort Casino and for maintaining and providing a constructive and professional work environment.

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

• 6+ years working in an enterprise level environment designing, building server, storage & network solutions in virtualized environments.
• 3+ years of experience implementing private/public and/or hybrid cloud solutions.
• 3+ year experience in container technology like Docker, Kubernetes or EKS.

This position requires the ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical…