Cloud Operations Lead

Weatherford; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Weatherford in Houston seeks a Cloud Operations Lead to oversee end-to-end cloud services for SaaS offerings, ensuring availability, security, performance, and cost efficiency across multi-tenant environments.

You will lead the Cloud Operations team, own incident response, change management, and capacity planning, and coordinate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to deliver reliable onboarding, upgrades, and support for Oil & Gas customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of IT/OT/Cloud operations experience, including supporting customer-facing production applications.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience (leading teams, on-call, coaching, and performance management).
• Demonstrated incident response experience and root cause remediation.
• Experience coordinating change/release activities and communicating with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Cloud Operations for SaaS offerings, ensuring availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Lead day-to-day operations and ticket support: monitoring, incident response, escalation, and post-incident reviews with corrective actions.
• Define and maintain SLAs, KPIs, and reporting for reliability and efficiency.
• Drive onboarding and tenant provisioning for new customers, including data migration coordination and go-live checklists.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute releases, upgrades, and maintenance windows with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Incident management

SaaS operations

AWS

Observability

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Job description

Job Overview

Weatherford have a great opportunity for a Cloud Operations Lead to join the Team in Houston. The Cloud Operations Lead is responsible for leading Cloud operations to maintain hosted (SaaS) Software product offerings for Oil and Gas customers, by following on managing Onboarding tasks, system maintenance and upgrades and hosting support activities.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Cloud Operations for CygNet and ForeSite SaaS offerings, ensuring availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.

• Lead day-to-day operations and ticket support: monitoring, incident response, escalation, and post-incident reviews with corrective/preventive actions.

• Define and maintain service objectives (SLAs), operational KPIs, and reporting for reliability, customer experience, and operational efficiency.

• Drive onboarding and tenant provisioning for new customers, including environment readiness, data migration coordination, and go-live checklists.

• Plan, coordinate, and execute releases, upgrades, and maintenance windows with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success; ensure change management and rollback readiness.

• Implement and continuously improve observability (logs/metrics/traces), alerting, runbooks, and automation.

• Own capacity planning and performance management (load testing coordination, scaling strategies, and bottleneck remediation).

• Own cloud cost governance:budgets, tagging, cost allocation per product/tenant,andoptimization initiatives.

• Establish andmaintainbackup, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans.

• Partner withITSecuritytomaintaincompliance requirements (e.g., access controls, vulnerability management, audit evidence, and secure operations practices).

• Collaborate with customer OT/field teams and internal stakeholders to design and support secure OT-to-cloud connectivity and data flows, aligned with operational constraints and safety requirements.

• Manage and mentor the Cloud Operations team: hiring, goal setting, coaching, on-call schedules, training plans, and performance feedback.

• Manage vendors and cloud service providers as needed; oversee support contracts and coordinate with third-party hosting/managed services.

• Ensure operational readiness for new featuresand softwarebyparticipatingin design reviews and defining operational acceptance criteria.

• Support customer communications during incidents and planned maintenance, including status updates and executive-level summaries whenrequired.

• Support Salesby coordinatingcustomer demonstrations andproviding onboardingprocessguidanceandhigh-level effortestimatesfornew customers.

Skills Required

• Cloud operations leadership: incident/problem/change management and operational governance.

• Strong understanding of SaaS concepts: multi-tenancy, environments, release management, SLAs.

• Hands-on experience operating production workloads on a major cloud platform (AWS).

• Observability and monitoring: metrics, logs, traces, alert tuning, dashboards, and runbooks.

• Security operations fundamentals: IAM, least privilege,secretsmanagement, patching, and vulnerability remediation.

• Knowledge of OT environments and industrial connectivity patterns (plant/field networks, SCADA/IoT concepts), including safe integration between OT and cloud services.

• Understanding of IT/OT boundary controls: network segmentation, firewalls/DMZ, secure remote access, and one-way flow concepts where applicable.

• Working knowledge of automation and scripting concepts (e.g., PowerShell, Python) to support collaboration with technical teams and understand operational automation opportunities.

• Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management practices (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Database and middleware operational knowledge (backup/restore, performance tuning, HA/DR patterns).

• Customer-facing communication skills for incidents, maintenance, and service reviews.

Skills Preferred

• Experience with regulated environments and audit support (SOC 2 or similar).

• Familiarity with OT standards and protocols (e.g., OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT) and implications for secure data acquisition and telemetry to cloud/SaaS platforms.

• Oil & gas domain familiarity and experience supporting field operations software in production.

Qualifications & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of experience in IT/OT/Cloud operations, including supporting customer-facing production applications.

• 3+ years of people leadership experience (leading teams, on-call, coaching, and performance management).

• Demonstrated experience running incident response and implementing root cause remediation.

• Experience coordinating change/release activities and communicating with stakeholders and customers.

• Manageon-call rotation and availability to support critical incidents outside business hours when needed.

• Ability to work with distributed teams and coordinate acrossTimezones.

• Ability to handle sensitive customer and production data according to company security policies.

Qualifications & Experience Preferred

• Experienceoperatingmulti-tenant SaaS products with defined SLAs and service review cadence.

• Experience with cloud networking and security (VNET/VPC, private connectivity,VPN).

• Experience with DR architecture and conducting DR exercises.

About Us

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.
When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.
Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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