Senior Azure Cloud Architect

Job Title: Senior Azure Architect with Oil and Gas industry expereince

Location: Houston, Texas

Duration: Long term

Interview: Two Rounds

Rates: Open to discuss

Local to Houston

Experience Required: 12-16 years (8+ years of hands-on Azure architecture, with at least 3 years in energy, oil and gas, or other asset-heavy industries)

Required Qualifications

• 12-16 years in IT infrastructure or cloud engineering, with 8+ years of hands-on Azure architecture experience.
• Proven delivery of enterprise Azure environments: multi-subscription landing zones, hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute, VPN) and large migrations.
• Experience in oil and gas, energy, utilities, mining or other asset-heavy industry, with understanding of how OT and IT differ in risk, change control and availability expectations.
• Deep expertise across Azure compute, networking, storage, identity and security services.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform and/or Bicep) and CI/CD experience.
• Experience designing for large-scale data platforms and for HA/DR of mission-critical systems.
• Working knowledge of OT security principles (Purdue model, network segmentation, IEC 62443 concepts).
• Excellent communication, ability to work credibly with both IT and operations stakeholders.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or equivalent hands-on credibility.
• Experience with OSDU, Microsoft Energy Data Services, or subsurface/seismic data platforms.
• DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) and Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500).