Azure Cloud Platform Engineer - Windows & SQL MI (Houston)

ZipStaff Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ZipStaff is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer for a major oil and gas client in Houston to manage Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL MI, automating deployments with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and PowerShell.

You’ll own the readiness and performance of all Azure-hosted apps across non-prod, DR, and production, turning vendor install docs into repeatable builds and recovery plans. This is strictly an application-platform role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in application platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• 3+ years Azure-hosted Windows and SQL business apps.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL MI.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Terraform, PowerShell, Git, CI/CD, release management.
• Knowledge of Windows services, IIS, certificates, and SQL diagnostics.
• Ability to work on-site in Houston, TX, 5 days/week.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Install, deploy, configure, upgrade, patch, and administer apps across non-prod, DR, and prod.
• Own readiness, configuration, reliability, performance, and lifecycle on Azure.
• Deploy and configure apps on Azure Windows Server VMs (IIS, schedulers, middleware).
• Administer Azure SQL MI: deploy, connectivity, SQL Agent jobs, backups.
• Turn vendor install docs into repeatable build, validation, cutover, rollback plans.
• Tune performance using OS metrics, SQL diagnostics, logs, and vendor guidance.
• Troubleshoot Windows, SQL MI, integrations, certificates, storage, service accounts, connectivity.
• Build GitHub Actions for install, release, config, DB deploy, validation, approvals, rollback.
• Use Terraform in approved patterns; write PowerShell for setup and health checks.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

CI/CD

Release management

Microsoft Azure

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

PowerShell

Git

IIS

Job description

ZipStaff is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer for a major oil and gas client in Houston to manage Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL MI, automating deployments with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and PowerShell.

You’ll own the readiness and performance of all Azure-hosted apps across non-prod, DR, and production, turning vendor install docs into repeatable builds and recovery plans. This is strictly an application-platform role.