Hiring: Senior Cloud Engineer Company: Fervo Energy Location: Houston, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 13:22:06 Target Skills & Keywords : Ansible, Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, GCP, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Linux, PowerShell, Python, Red Hat, Terraform, Vault, Zero Trust About the job Experience: •8 years in infrastructure support or engineering with demonstrated progression •6+ years in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or platform engineering Required Skills: •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 •Build and iterate golden paths and 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 •Systems Configuration & Fleet Management •Manage Linux and Windows configuration through automation—Ansible and SUSE Manager (or equivalent) for Linux; Microsoft Intune and/or Group Policy for Windows—rather than manual, host-by-host changes •Maintain baseline images and standards so new hosts, including field and edge compute, are provisioned in a known, compliant state •Operate Azure landing zones and platform services within an Entra ID / Zero Trust model, with observability across monitoring, logging, alerting, and cost Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) •Production experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform and/or Bicep), including reusable modules and state management •Applied hands-on capability in 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 •Platform engineering experience: internal developer platforms, golden paths, and self-service provisioning •Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience; Azure remains the primary platform •SUSE Manager (or equivalent, such as Red Hat Satellite) and Microsoft Intune at scale •Policy-as-code (Azure Policy, Open Policy Agent) and secrets management (Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault) •Regulated-sector experience and familiarity with NIST CSF, ISO 27001, or NERC CIP •Certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), or HashiCorp Terraform Associate Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!