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Our long-life, balanced portfolio combines stable cash flows from low-decline production with a deep, high-quality development inventory.\nCrescent is a top three producer(by gross operated production) in the Eagle Ford basin. Crescent’s leadership is an experienced team of investment, financial and industry professionals that combinesproven investment and operating expertise. For more than a decade, Crescent and our predecessors have executed ona 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 maintaininga strong balance sheet.\nWe are seeking an experienced Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering to lead the people, strategy, and engineering behind Crescent Energy’s 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.\nCrescent 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.\nThis leader owns the strategy, roadmap, and daily operation of Crescent’s 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.\nThe 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the Cloud Platform Engineering function responsible for Crescent’s Azure platform, including infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, identity, governance, reliability, and cost.\n\nManage, mentor, and develop cloud and platform engineers, including senior engineers, while maintaining a strong hands-on technical presence.\n\nSet 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.\n\nBuild 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.\n\nOwn the design, deployment, operation, and lifecycle management of enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure and shared cloud services.\n\nLead Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, including module design, state management, versioning, code review, and deployment workflows.\n\nDirect Microsoft Entra ID engineering, including identity lifecycle, role-based access control, privileged access, conditional access, enterprise applications, and hybrid identity.\n\nEstablish and enforce Azure governance through management groups, subscription design, landing zones, Azure Policy, tagging standards, and operational guardrails.\n\nEmbed 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.\n\nStandardize and operate CI/CD pipelines and automation used to build, validate, and deploy platform infrastructure, and provide reusable delivery patterns for engineering teams.\n\nEstablish 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.\n\nMature observability across the platform using Azure Monitor and related tooling, with consistent metrics, logging, dashboards, and alerting standards.\n\nLead 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.\n\nDefine platform standards, configuration baselines, change control practices, documentation requirements, and operational runbooks.\n\nTroubleshoot complex cloud, identity, access, automation, networking, and reliability issues through to resolution, and lead root cause analysis and preventive action.\n\nPartner with Network Engineering on cloud and hybrid networking, including virtual networks, private connectivity, DNS, and network security controls in Azure.\n\nParticipate 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.\n\nMaintain accurate platform documentation, including architecture diagrams, identity and access models, governance and tagging standards, runbooks, and audit evidence.\n\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n10+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including deep hands-on Microsoft Azure experience in enterprise environments.\n\nProven track record of leading and developing engineering teams (typically 4+ years), including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and growing senior engineers.\n\nStrong hands-on and architectural experience designing, operating, and securing enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure and shared platform services.\n\nProven experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, including module design, state management, versioning, and deployment workflows.\n\nStrong experience with Microsoft Entra ID engineering and administration, including RBAC, conditional access, privileged access, enterprise applications, identity governance, and hybrid identity.\n\nDemonstrated 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.\n\nSolid command of Azure governance, including management groups, subscription design, landing zones, Azure Policy, tagging, and operational guardrails.\n\nStrong 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.\n\nExperience establishing and operating reliability practices, including service level objectives, error budgets, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.\n\nExperience implementing FinOps or cloud cost management practices, including tagging and allocation, budgeting and forecasting, rightsizing, commitment optimization, and reporting.\n\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines and automation used to deploy or validate Terraform-based infrastructure.\n\nStrong knowledge of cloud networking concepts, including virtual networks, peering, routing, private endpoints, VPN or private connectivity, DNS, and network security controls.\n\nProficiency with at least one of PowerShell, Bash, or Python for cloud automation and operational scripting.\n\nStrong 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.\n\nAbility to operate with urgency, ownership, and sound judgment in an environment where platform availability supports enterprise and field operations.\n\nPreferred\nExperience supporting hybrid enterprise environments spanning on-premises infrastructure, Azure, and operational technology (OT) environments.\n\nStrong familiarity with operational technology, industrial systems, or regulated multi-site operating environments.\n\nExperience with Azure landing zones and the Cloud Adoption Framework, enterprise-scale architectures, and subscription-scale governance models.\n\nExperience integrating acquired cloud environments, rationalizing inherited infrastructure, and standardizing platforms after M&A activity.\n\nExperience with observability tooling such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry, and with defining SLOs and alerting standards.\n\nExperience with FinOps tooling and practices aligned to the FinOps Foundation framework, including showback or chargeback and unit economics.\n\nExperience with containers and orchestration such as Azure Kubernetes Service, and with modern deployment patterns, where applicable to the platform.\n\nExperience measuring developer experience and delivery, such as DORA metrics, adoption tracking, or developer satisfaction feedback.\n\nPrior experience in oil and gas, energy, utilities, industrial, or other field-heavy operating environments.\n\nRelevant certifications such as Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Network Engineer Associate, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, or FinOps Certified 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