Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure Windows / SQL MI)

Location: Houston, TX (On-site)

Employment Type: Contract (W2 through Zip Staff — No C2C or 1099)

Zip Staff is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer for commercial, ETRM, and market-data applications at a major oil and gas organization in Houston.

You will install, patch, and run vendor apps on Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL Managed Instance
, then automate releases with Git Hub Actions, Terraform, and Power Shell. This is application-platform engineering—not a greenfield cloud-architect seat.

• Install, deploy, configure, upgrade, patch, and administer commercial, ETRM, market-data, and vendor apps across non-prod, DR, and production.
• Own readiness, configuration, reliability, performance, and lifecycle on Azure.
• Deploy and configure apps on Azure Windows Server VMs (services, IIS, schedulers, middleware, clients).
• Administer Azure SQL MI: deploy, connectivity, SQL Agent jobs, backup/restore coordination, diagnostics, capacity.
• Turn vendor install docs into repeatable build, validation, cutover, rollback, and transition plans.
• Tune using OS metrics, SQL diagnostics, logs, and vendor guidance.
• Troubleshoot Windows, SQL MI, integrations, certificates, storage, service accounts, and connectivity.
• Build Git Hub Actions for install, release, config, DB deploy, validation, approvals, and rollback.
• Use Terraform in approved patterns; write Power Shell for setup, patching, health checks, and log collection.

• 5+ years application platform engineering, Dev Ops, app ops, or SRE.
• 3+ years Azure-hosted Windows and SQL business applications.
• Hands-on Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Git Hub Actions, Terraform, Power Shell, Git, CI/CD, release management.
• Windows services, IIS, scheduled tasks, certificates, service accounts, SQL diagnostics, backup/restore.
• Ability to work on-site in Houston, TX, 5 days/week.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

• ETRM/CTRM, market data, risk, scheduling, logistics, settlement, or pricing platforms.
• Right Angle, TriplePoint, Plan Logic, Endur, ZEMA, or similar.
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Splunk.
• AZ-104, AZ-204, or AWS SAA-C03;
  Git Hub Foundations.
• SOX, ITIL, change governance, DR in a regulated environment.
• Azure API Management / App Service (listed on the requisition; confirm weight with the hiring manager).

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