Cloud Platform Engineer

Blue Ribbon Global Technologies
  • Houston, TX
  • Instant Apply
5 days ago

Job Description

Role: Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Houston, TX - Onsite (5 Days/Week)

Domain: Oil & Gas


Key Responsibilities

  • Install, deploy, configure, upgrade, patch, and administer Commercial, ETRM, Market Data, and vendor applications across nonproduction, disaster recovery, and production environments.
  • Own application-platform readiness, configuration, reliability, performance, supportability, and lifecycle execution on Azure infrastructure supplied by enterprise cloud teams.
  • Develop deep product knowledge of application components, services, databases, integrations, dependencies, sizing, and recovery requirements.
  • Collaborate with Application Development, Business SMEs, Vendors, Enterprise Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Database, Security, and Service Management teams.

Application Platform Engineering Responsibilities

  • Deploy and configure vendor and custom applications on Azure Windows Server VMs, including services, IIS, schedulers, middleware, client components, and environment settings.
  • Administer application workloads on Azure SQL Managed Instance, including database deployment, connectivity, SQL Agent jobs, backup and restore coordination, diagnostics, and capacity monitoring.
  • Translate vendor architecture and installation requirements into repeatable build, validation, cutover, rollback, and transition plans.
  • Tune application performance using operating-system metrics, SQL diagnostics, logs, workload behavior, resource utilization, and vendor guidance.
  • Troubleshoot applications, Windows, SQL MI, integrations, certificates, storage, service accounts, connectivity, and configuration.
  • Plan application upgrades, patch compatibility, environment refreshes, resilience tests, capacity, and platform optimization.

Automation & DevOps Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for installation, release orchestration, configuration, database deployment, validation, approvals, and rollback.
  • Use Terraform within enterprise-approved patterns to provision application environments and supporting Azure resources.
  • Develop PowerShell and other scripts for environment setup, patching, health checks, configuration validation, service management, log collection, and recurring tasks.
  • Standardize reusable deployment packages, configuration, secrets references, release controls, and automated tests to reduce manual effort and drift.
  • Troubleshoot pipeline, deployment, dependency, artifact, Terraform state, configuration, and release failures.

Required Technical Skills

  • Hands-on administration of applications hosted on Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
  • Strong experience installing, configuring, upgrading, patching, troubleshooting, and supporting vendor or enterprise applications.
  • Practical expertise with GitHub Actions, Terraform, PowerShell, Git, CI/CD, release management, and environment provisioning.
  • Working knowledge of Windows services, IIS, scheduled tasks, certificates, service accounts, SQL diagnostics, backup and restore, and application connectivity.
  • Demonstrated performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, root cause analysis, reliability improvement, technical documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with energy trading, ETRM/CTRM, Market Data, risk, scheduling, logistics, settlement, or pricing platforms.
  • Experience with RightAngle, TriplePoint, PlanLogic, Endur, ZEMA, or comparable vendor applications.
  • Knowledge of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Splunk, REST APIs, middleware, messaging, integrations, .NET, Python, Bash, or enterprise schedulers.
  • Familiarity with ITIL, change governance, SOX controls, audit readiness, disaster recovery, and regulated environments.
  • Relevant Azure, GitHub, Terraform, or SQL certifications.
  • Associate-level certification: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03), or Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204). GitHub Foundations is recommended.

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent practical experience considered.
  • 5+ years in application platform engineering, DevOps, application operations, site reliability, or related technical delivery.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting Azure-hosted Windows and SQL-based business applications.
  • Demonstrated delivery of application deployments, vendor upgrades, automation, operational readiness, and platform improvements.
Skills

Mandatory Skills : Azure API Management, Azure App Service

Good to Have Skills : Azure Cloud Architecture, Cloud Solution Architecture, GitHub, Snowflake Cloud Data Migration Testing

Required Skills :

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No

Numbers & Facts

LocationHouston, TX

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Application Hostingunmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Background Investigationunmatched
  • Capacity Managementunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • Data Recoveryunmatched
  • DevOpsunmatched
  • Disaster Recoveryunmatched
  • Enterprise Applicationsunmatched
  • Gitunmatched
  • GitHubunmatched
  • ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)unmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
  • Logisticsunmatched
  • Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS)unmatched
  • Metricsunmatched
  • Microsoft Certificationsunmatched
  • Microsoft IIS Web Server (Internet Information Services)unmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Operating Systemunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Serverunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows System Administrationunmatched
  • Middlewareunmatched
  • Oil and Gasunmatched
  • Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
  • Pricingunmatched
  • Product Developmentunmatched
  • Production Systemsunmatched
  • Release Management/Engineeringunmatched
  • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
  • Resource Utilizationunmatched
  • Riskunmatched
  • Root Cause Analysisunmatched
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)unmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • Software Administrationunmatched
  • Software Developmentunmatched
  • Software Engineeringunmatched
  • Software Patchesunmatched
  • Software Upgradesunmatched
  • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Technical Deliveryunmatched
  • Technical Writingunmatched
  • Test Automationunmatched
  • Testingunmatched
  • VMS Operating Systemunmatched
  • Validation Testingunmatched
  • Virtual Machine (VM)unmatched
  • Windows PowerShellunmatched

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