Azure Platform Engineer: IaC, GitOps & Self-Service

Stanford Climate Ventures; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Climate Ventures in Houston, TX, seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to build, automate, and operate an Azure-native cloud platform, turning architectural designs into repeatable, well-governed infrastructure.

You will own infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, and self-service platform capabilities while configuring Linux and Windows systems with automated, auditable processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8 years in infrastructure support or engineering with demonstrated progression.
• 6+ years in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or platform engineering.
• Production experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform and/or Bicep), including reusable modules and state management.
• Hands-on experience with Git/GitHub and GitHub Actions for CI/CD or similar product.
• Demonstrated coding ability in Python and/or PowerShell, evidenced by repositories or work samples.
• Experience managing both Linux and Windows systems through automation (e.g., Ansible, Microsoft Intune and/or Group Policy).

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code & Delivery: Build and maintain IaC (Terraform and/or Bicep) and reusable modules to provision Azure resources across environments.
• CI/CD: Build CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and enforce GitOps workflows with pull requests and peer review.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Linux

Windows

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Intune

Group Policy

SUSE Manager

Job description

Stanford Climate Ventures in Houston, TX, seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to build, automate, and operate an Azure-native cloud platform, turning architectural designs into repeatable, well-governed infrastructure.

You will own infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, and self-service platform capabilities while configuring Linux and Windows systems with automated, auditable processes.