Cloud Platform Engineer

ZipStaff • Houston, TX

21h • Onsite

About The Position

ZipStaff is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer for commercial, ETRM, and market-data applications at a major oil and gas organization in Houston. You will install, patch, and run vendor apps on Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL Managed Instance, then automate releases with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and PowerShell. This is application-platform engineering—not a greenfield cloud-architect seat.

Requirements

• 5+ years application platform engineering, DevOps, app ops, or SRE.
• 3+ years Azure-hosted Windows and SQL business applications.
• Hands-on Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• GitHub Actions, Terraform, PowerShell, Git, CI/CD, release management.
• Windows services, IIS, scheduled tasks, certificates, service accounts, SQL diagnostics, backup/restore.
• Ability to work on-site in Houston, TX, 5 days/week.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• ETRM/CTRM, market data, risk, scheduling, logistics, settlement, or pricing platforms.
• RightAngle, TriplePoint, PlanLogic, Endur, ZEMA, or similar.
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Splunk.
• AZ-104, AZ-204, or AWS SAA-C03; GitHub Foundations.
• SOX, ITIL, change governance, DR in a regulated environment.
• Azure API Management / App Service (listed on the requisition; confirm weight with the hiring manager).

Responsibilities

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed