Crescent Energy

Crescent Energy

Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering

Houston, TX

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
PythonBashPowerShellCode ReviewAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGrafanaDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySOC OperationsIncident ResponseForecastingBudgetingM&APerformance ManagementDNSVPNNetwork Engineering

About the role

  • Crescent is a differentiated U.S. energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined, returns-driven growth through acquisition strategy and consistent return of capital.
  • Our long-life, balanced portfolio combines stable cash flows from low-decline production with a deep, high-quality development inventory.
  • Crescent is a top three producer (by gross operated production) in the Eagle Ford basin.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Cloud Platform Engineering function responsible for Crescent's Azure platform, including infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, identity, governance, reliability, and cost.
  • Manage, mentor, and develop cloud and platform engineers, including senior engineers, while maintaining a strong hands-on technical presence.
  • Build and operate self-service capabilities, golden paths, reusable Terraform modules, templates, and guardrails that let application, data, and infrastructure teams provision and run Azure resources safely and consistently.
  • Own the design, deployment, operation, and lifecycle management of enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure and shared cloud services.
  • Lead Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, including module design, state management, versioning, code review, and deployment workflows.
  • Establish and enforce Azure governance through management groups, subscription design, landing zones, Azure Policy, tagging standards, and operational guardrails.
  • Standardize and operate CI/CD pipelines and automation used to build, validate, and deploy platform infrastructure, and provide reusable delivery patterns for engineering teams.
  • Lead the FinOps practice for cloud spend, including cost allocation and tagging, budgeting, forecasting, anomaly detection, rightsizing, commitment and rate optimization, showback, and unit economics, in partnership with finance and engineering teams.
  • Troubleshoot complex cloud, identity, access, automation, networking, and reliability issues through to resolution, and lead root cause analysis and preventive action.
  • Maintain accurate platform documentation, including architecture diagrams, identity and access models, governance and tagging standards, runbooks, and audit evidence.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of cloud networking concepts, including virtual networks, peering, routing, private endpoints, VPN or private connectivity, DNS, and network security controls.
  • Proficiency with at least one of PowerShell, Bash, or Python for cloud automation and operational scripting.
  • Experience with Azure landing zones and the Cloud Adoption Framework, enterprise-scale architectures, and subscription-scale governance models.
  • Experience integrating acquired cloud environments, rationalizing inherited infrastructure, and standardizing platforms after M&A activity.
  • Experience with observability tooling such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry, and with defining SLOs and alerting standards.
  • Experience with FinOps tooling and practices aligned to the FinOps Foundation framework, including showback or chargeback and unit economics.
  • Required
  • Proven track record of leading and developing engineering teams (typically 4+ years), including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and growing senior engineers.
  • Strong experience with Microsoft Entra ID engineering and administration, including RBAC, conditional access, privileged access, enterprise applications, identity governance, and hybrid identity.
  • Demonstrated experience building self-service or platform-as-a-product capabilities, such as golden paths, reusable modules, templates, internal developer platforms, or paved-road patterns that reduce friction for engineering teams.
  • Solid command of Azure governance, including management groups, subscription design, landing zones, Azure Policy, tagging, and operational guardrails.
  • Strong cloud security experience, including least-privilege access, secrets management, policy-as-code, logging and monitoring, and control enforcement, with the ability to partner effectively with a security or CISO organization.

Nice to have

  • Mature observability across the platform using Azure Monitor and related tooling, with consistent metrics, logging, dashboards, and alerting standards.
  • Define platform standards, configuration baselines, change control practices, documentation requirements, and operational runbooks.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including deep hands-on Microsoft Azure experience in enterprise environments.
  • Strong hands-on and architectural experience designing, operating, and securing enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure and shared platform services.
  • Proven experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, including module design, state management, versioning, and deployment workflows.
  • Experience establishing and operating reliability practices, including service level objectives, error budgets, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Experience implementing FinOps or cloud cost management practices, including tagging and allocation, budgeting and forecasting, rightsizing, commitment optimization, and reporting.

Skills

  • Microsoft Azure Platform and Shared Services
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
  • Microsoft Entra ID and Identity and Access Management
  • Azure Governance, Policy, and Landing Zones
  • Platform as a Product, Self-Service, and Golden Paths
  • Secure-by-Default Engineering and Policy-as-Code
  • CI/CD Pipelines and Automation
  • Site Reliability Engineering, SLOs, and Incident Response
  • Observability and Monitoring
  • FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization
  • Cloud Networking and Hybrid Connectivity
  • Change Control, Standards, and Documentation

Company info

  • Set the platform strategy and roadmap, and treat the internal developer platform as a product, with internal developers as customers, clear adoption goals, feedback loops, documentation, and defined measures of success.
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