Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering

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.

We 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.

• Lead the Cloud Platform Engineering function responsible for Crescent’s 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 g, 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 Fin Ops 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,…