Senior Cloud Platform Architect (Contract)

hpinc; Tulsa (OK); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Helmerich and Payne is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer Contractor to act as the technical authority for cloud architecture and engineering standards across Azure, GCP, and related hybrid infrastructure. You will shape patterns, guardrails, and operational readiness while guiding migrations and automation initiatives.

As a senior contractor, you will partner with cybersecurity and governance teams to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud platforms supporting drilling operations and

Qualifications

• Senior IT cloud engineering experience
• Ability to translate business needs into cloud platform designs
• Experience leading cloud migrations and automation initiatives

Responsibilities

• Serve as enterprise-level technical authority for cloud engineering, architecture, and hybrid design across Azure, GCP, and related infrastructure services.
• Define and maintain cloud architecture patterns, landing-zone standards, platform guardrails, network integration models, identity dependencies, monitoring standards, tagging standards, and operational readiness expectations.
• Design and guide implementation of highly available, resilient, secure, and recoverable cloud solutions supporting critical applications, real-time rig data, global integration, automation, analytics, and continuity.
• Lead IaC and automation using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, PowerShell, Python, YAML, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines to improve repeatability.
• Partner with IT and functional teams to translate requirements into cloud designs balancing speed, cost, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Provide hands-on leadership for cloud migrations, modernization, platform integration, disaster recovery, backup readiness, observability, secrets management, and cloud-native service adoption.
• Establish and improve cloud operations practices including monitoring, alerting, logging, performance management, capacity planning, incident triage, root cause analysis, and runbooks.
• Lead troubleshooting for major cloud incidents and communicate outage impact and risk to stakeholders and executives.
• Guide engineers through reviews, change planning, testing, knowledge transfer, and technical coaching.
• Evaluate new cloud services and architectural options; recommend solutions aligning with strategy, security, and cost expectations.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Cloud architecture

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Python

YAML

CI/CD pipelines

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Observability

Security posture

Disaster recovery

Tools

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Helmerich and Payne is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer Contractor to act as the technical authority for cloud architecture and engineering standards across Azure, GCP, and related hybrid infrastructure. You will shape patterns, guardrails, and operational readiness while guiding migrations and automation initiatives.

As a senior contractor, you will partner with cybersecurity and governance teams to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud platforms supporting drilling operations and