Crescent is a differentiated U.S. energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined returns-driven growth through acquisition strategy and consistent return of capital. Our long-life balanced portfolio combines stable cash flows from low-decline production with a deep high-quality development inventory.

Crescent is a top three producer (by gross operated production) in the Eagle Ford basin. Crescents leadership is an experienced team of investment financial and industry professionals that combines proven investment and operating expertise. For more than a decade Crescent and our predecessors have executed on a consistent strategy focused on cash flow risk management and returns.Through disciplined and accretive investments we have successfully tripled the size of our company since going public in December 2021 while maintaining a strong balance sheet.

We are seeking an experienced Manager Cloud Platform Engineering to lead the people strategy and engineering behind Crescent Energys Microsoft Azure platform. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for the cloud foundation that enterprise applications data and operational technology services depend on and for turning that foundation into a self-service platform that engineering teams across the company can build on with speed and confidence.

Crescent Energy operates a large distributed oil and gas environment built through steady growth and acquisition with corporate offices field operations production sites and operational technology systems that increasingly rely on Azure-hosted services. The cloud platform is a critical backbone for this environment. The successful candidate must be equally comfortable leading and developing engineers setting technical direction treating the platform as a product with internal developers as its customers and staying close enough to the work to review a Terraform module resolve an identity issue or guide an incident to resolution.

This leader owns the strategy roadmap and daily operation of Crescents cloud platform spanning Azure infrastructure Infrastructure as Code Microsoft Entra ID and identity governance and policy reliability and cost. The mandate is twofold. First run and mature a secure well-governed and reliable Azure environment. Second build the standardized self-service capabilities golden paths reusable modules and guardrails that let application and data teams provision and operate what they need without becoming cloud identity or networking experts. Success is measured not only by uptime and audit readiness but by adoption developer experience delivery speed reliability and the unit economics of the platform.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on and architectural depth in Microsoft Azure Terraform and Microsoft Entra ID along with real experience leading a platform cloud or infrastructure engineering team. This role partners closely with the Network Engineering security application data and operational technology teams and leads a group that includes senior cloud engineers. While the CISO organization owns cybersecurity governance and security operations the Cloud Platform Engineering team is responsible for engineering automating securing by default operating and continuously improving the Azure platform and the self-service experience built on top of it.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Cloud Platform Engineering function responsible for Crescents Azure platform including infrastructure Infrastructure as Code identity governance reliability and cost.

• Manage mentor and develop cloud and platform engineers including senior engineers while maintaining a strong hands-on technical presence.

• Set the platform strategy and roadmap and treat the internal developer platform as a product with internal developers as customers clear adoption goals feedback loops documentation and defined measures of success.

• Build and operate self-service capabilities golden paths reusable Terraform modules templates and guardrails that let application data and infrastructure teams provision and run Azure resources safely and consistently.

• Own the design deployment operation and lifecycle management of enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure and shared cloud services.

• Lead Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform including module design state management versioning code review and deployment workflows.

• Direct Microsoft Entra ID engineering including identity lifecycle role-based access control privileged access conditional access enterprise applications and hybrid identity.

• Establish and enforce Azure governance through management groups subscription design landing zones Azure Policy tagging standards and operational guardrails.

• Embed security into the platform by default including least-privilege access secrets management policy-as-code key and certificate management logging and control enforcement in partnership with the CISO organization.

• Standardize and operate CI/CD pipelines and automation used to build validate and deploy platform infrastructure and provide reusable delivery patterns for engineering teams.

• Establish the reliability practice for platform-owned services including service level objectives error budgets monitoring alerting on-call readiness incident response blameless postmortems and service continuity covering backup and disaster recovery.

• Mature observability across the platform using Azure Monitor and related tooling with consistent metrics logging dashboards and alerting standards.

• Lead the FinOps practice for cloud spend including cost allocation and tagging budgeting forecasting anomaly detection rightsizing commitment and rate optimization showback and unit economics in partnership with finance and engineering teams.

• Define platform standards configuration baselines change control practices documentation requirements and operational runbooks.

• Troubleshoot complex cloud identity access automation networking and reliability issues through to resolution and lead root cause analysis and preventive action.

• Partner with Network Engineering on cloud and hybrid networking including virtual networks private connectivity DNS and network security controls in Azure.

• Participate in architecture reviews project planning vendor and tooling evaluations infrastructure roadmaps and M&A integration activities including standardization of inherited cloud environments and reduction of technical debt.

• Maintain accurate platform documentation including architecture diagrams identity and access models governance and tagging standards runbooks and audit evidence.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of progressive experience in cloud engineering platform engineering or infrastructure engineering including deep hands-on Microsoft Azure experience in enterprise environments.

• Proven track record of leading and developing engineering teams (typically 4 years) including hiring mentoring performance management and growing senior engineers.

• Strong hands-on and architectural experience designing operating and securing enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure and shared platform services.

• Proven experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code including module design state management versioning and deployment workflows.

• Strong experience with Microsoft Entra ID engineering and administration including RBAC conditional access privileged access enterprise applications identity governance and hybrid identity.

• Demonstrated experience building self-service or platform-as-a-product capabilities such as golden paths reusable modules templates internal developer platforms or paved-road patterns that reduce friction for engineering teams.

• Solid command of Azure governance including management groups subscription design landing zones Azure Policy tagging and operational guardrails.

• Strong cloud security experience including least-privilege access secrets management policy-as-code logging and monitoring and control enforcement with the ability to partner effectively with a security or CISO organization.

• Experience establishing and operating reliability practices including service level objectives error budgets monitoring alerting incident response and postmortems.

• Experience implementing FinOps or cloud cost management practices including tagging and allocation budgeting and forecasting rightsizing commitment optimization and reporting.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation used to deploy or validate Terraform-based infrastructure.

• Strong knowledge of cloud networking concepts including virtual networks peering routing private endpoints VPN or private connectivity DNS and network security controls.

• Proficiency with at least one of PowerShell Bash or Python for cloud automation and operational scripting.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders and to drive adoption through clear value and well-designed defaults rather than mandates.

• Ability to operate with urgency ownership and sound judgment in an environment where platform availability supports enterprise and field operations.

Preferred

• Experience supporting hybrid enterprise environments spanning on-premises infrastructure Azure and operational technology (OT) environments.

• Strong familiarity with operational technology industrial systems or regulated multi-site operating environments.

• Experience with Azure landing zones and the Cloud Adoption Framework enterprise-scale architectures and subscription-scale governance models.

• Experience integrating acquired cloud environments rationalizing inherited infrastructure and standardizing platforms after M&A activity.

• Experience with observability tooling such as Azure Monitor Log Analytics Grafana Datadog or OpenTelemetry and with defining SLOs and alerting standards.

• Experience with FinOps tooling and practices aligned to the FinOps Foundation framework including showback or chargeback and unit economics.

• Experience with containers and orchestration such as Azure Kubernetes Service and with modern deployment patterns where applicable to the platform.

• Experience measuring developer experience and delivery such as DORA metrics adoption tracking or developer satisfaction feedback.

• Prior experience in oil and gas energy utilities industrial or other field-heavy operating environments.

• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert Azure Administrator Associate Azure Network Engineer Associate HashiCorp Terraform Associate or FinOps Certified Practitioner.

Key Skills

• Microsoft Azure Platform and Shared Services

• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

• Microsoft Entra ID and Identity and Access Management

• Azure Governance Policy and Landing Zones

• Platform as a Product Self-Service and Golden Paths

• Secure-by-Default Engineering and Policy-as-Code

• CI/CD Pipelines and Automation

• Site Reliability Engineering SLOs and Incident Response

• Observability and Monitoring

• FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization

• Cloud Networking and Hybrid Connectivity

• Change Control Standards and Documentation

• Team Leadership and Technical Mentorship

• Cross-Functional Collaboration with Security Network Data Application and OT Teams

Leadership Expectations

The Manager Cloud Platform Engineering is expected to be more than a ticket escalator or an administrative manager. This leader sets standards creates clarity raises engineering discipline and builds trust with application data security network and operations stakeholders. Treating the platform as a product the successful candidate will:

• Lead from both technical depth and operational ownership staying close enough to the work to make sound engineering decisions.

• Build a platform engineering culture grounded in automation-first practices documentation standardization reliability ownership and a strong customer orientation toward internal developers.

• Drive adoption and standardization across teams through clear value well-designed defaults and golden paths rather than mandates while leaving room for innovation.

• Establish clear guardrails for cloud identity and security changes while working constructively with the CISO organization.

• Improve visibility into the health reliability risk security posture and cost of Crescents Azure platform.

• Develop engineers grow senior talent and raise the overall maturity of the team.

• Build a scalable cloud platform that supports Crescents growth acquisitions enterprise applications data and operational technology strategy.

Why Join Us

• Lead a mission-critical Azure platform supporting large-scale multi-site energy operations.

• Own a true platform-as-a-product mandate with meaningful scope across Azure infrastructure identity governance reliability automation and cost.

• Shape the self-service developer experience that engineering data and operations teams across the company depend on.

• Influence the future-state cloud architecture and platform strategy for a growing acquisition-oriented energy company.

• Build and lead a high-performing team with strong executive visibility and support for modernization reliability and engineering discipline.

• Competitive compensation benefits and career growth opportunities.

Crescent Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race color religion gender/pregnancy gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age veteran status or any other legally protected status. Crescent Energy is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If you require accommodation to complete the application process please let us know by contacting .