Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join our IT team and play a critical role in designing, managing, and optimizing our hybrid IT infrastructure. This position focuses on maintaining high-availability cloud workloads that support mission-critical oil and gas operations, including production data management, SCADA interfaces, engineering applications, financial systems, and remote field connectivity. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in

with a proven track record of migrating workloads, implementing hybrid solutions, and ensuring secure, compliant, and cost-effective operations in a 24/7 energy industry environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, deploy, and manage hybrid/multi-cloud workloads across Azure and AWS, including virtual machines (VMs), containers, databases, networking (VPCs/VNets), identity (Entra ID/AD integration), and security configurations.

- Lead the administration, monitoring, patching, and performance tuning of cloud workloads and backup/recovery solutions.

- Architect and implement migrations, lift-and-shift, or re-platforming strategies to move or extend on-premises applications and data to Azure and/or AWS while minimizing downtime and risk.

- Lead IT infrastructure and workload consolidation and integration efforts as we acquire multiple companies quickly.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Azure ARM/Bicep, AWS CloudFormation, or similar.

- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity for critical systems, including geo-redundant setups, backup strategies, and failover testing aligned with oil and gas operational requirements.

- Collaborate with application owners, cybersecurity, and operations teams to support SCADA/ICS integration, production reporting tools, land management systems, and other energy-specific software in hybrid environments.

- Monitor cloud and on-prem resource usage, implement cost optimization strategies (e.g., reserved instances, right-sizing), and provide regular reporting on infrastructure health, performance, and spend.

- Maintain security posture through patch management, vulnerability remediation, IAM best practices, network segmentation, encryption, and compliance with industry standards.

- Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex incidents, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.

- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to IT strategy, standards, and documentation.