Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering

Crescent is a differentiated U.S. energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined, returns‑driven growth 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. Crescent’s 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 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.

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 Crescent’s cloud platform, spanning Azure infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Microsoft Entra  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.

• 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…