Cloud Platform Engineer II - Modernization & IaC Lead

Caesars Entertainment; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Caesars Entertainment is seeking a Platform Engineer II to help modernize our cloud platforms and move workloads to scalable, secure, and observable environments. You will lead cloud architecture decisions, primarily on AWS, and work with architects, application teams, and operations to deliver hybrid solutions.

The role emphasizes serverless and container-based runtimes, IaC, CI/CD, and a DevOps/SRE mindset to improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency across enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, primarily with AWS.
• Experience with serverless, container-based, or event-driven architectures.
• Proven IaC, CI/CD, and automated cloud environments.
• Experience modernizing or supporting .NET applications in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Comfort with Linux-based runtimes and non-Windows environments.
• Strong cloud security and networking fundamentals.
• Agile / DevOps experience with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud architecture decisions for new platforms and modernization.
• Design and deliver cloud-native and hybrid solutions for migration of legacy systems.
• Own IaC implementations and automation strategies.
• Build and operate production-grade cloud services with reliability and security.
• Modernize CI/CD pipelines with application teams.
• Mentor engineers and raise cloud maturity.
• Define reference architectures and platform standards.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.

Skills

AWS

Serverless architectures

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

DevOps practices

Communication

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

Dynatrace

React

Playwright

OpenAPI

.NET

Job description

Caesars Entertainment is seeking a Platform Engineer II to help modernize our cloud platforms and move workloads to scalable, secure, and observable environments. You will lead cloud architecture decisions, primarily on AWS, and work with architects, application teams, and operations to deliver hybrid solutions.

The role emphasizes serverless and container-based runtimes, IaC, CI/CD, and a DevOps/SRE mindset to improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency across enterprise platforms.