Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: IaC, GitOps & Self-Service

Fervo Energy Company; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy Company seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate an Azure-native cloud platform. You will drive infrastructure as code, GitHub-based delivery, and self-service capabilities with automated configuration for Linux and Windows systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, strong coding ability (Python/PowerShell), and disciplined, peer-reviewed change management through version-controlled pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform and/or Bicep) and reusable modules to provision Azure resources consistently across environments and sites.
• Build CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and enforce GitOps workflows where changes flow through version control, pull requests, and peer review.
• Develop platform self-service capabilities with guardrails codified as policy to keep provisioning within security, cost, and tagging standards.
• Document platform capabilities so internal teams can consume them without one-to-one engineering support.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud engineering

Coding ability (Python/PowerShell)

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

GitHub Actions

Ansible

SUSE Manager

Intune

Group Policy

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Fervo Energy Company seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate an Azure-native cloud platform. You will drive infrastructure as code, GitHub-based delivery, and self-service capabilities with automated configuration for Linux and Windows systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, strong coding ability (Python/PowerShell), and disciplined, peer-reviewed change management through version-controlled pipelines.