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Fervo Energy

Hybrid Cloud Architect

Fervo Energy, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246

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The Hybrid Cloud Architect will lead the design, development, and implementation of Fervo’s global hybrid cloud environment supporting both IT and OT systems. This person will be responsible for infrastructure architecture, system integration, and lifecycle management across servers, virtualization, storage, compute, databases, and infrastructure data platforms.

The Hybrid Cloud Architect will define and execute strategies for secure, scalable, and automation-ready infrastructure to enable high availability and performance across Fervo’s enterprise and field operations.

This person will collaborate closely with the Network Architect, Cybersecurity, and End User Computing teams to ensure alignment across all technology domains.

Responsibilities

Design and evolve hybrid cloud landing zones, virtualization, and compute platforms

Architect storage, backup, and recovery solutions for resilience

Lead adoption of virtual desktops, serverless computing, and container platforms

Build infrastructure for data lakes and telemetry pipelines for observability and capacity planning

Drive automation with Infrastructure as Code ("Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitOps")

Implement monitoring and observability with tools such as Azure Monitor, Zabbix, or PRTG

Partner with security teams to embed Zero Trust and compliance frameworks

Collaborate with innovation teams to support AI workloads and emerging technologies for plant operations and subsurface exploration.

Support IT and OT infrastructure for next-generation geothermal projects

Qualifications

10+ years in IT infrastructure architecture, with experience supporting IT services in OT environments

Demonstrated experience as a solutions architect

Deep expertise in virtualization, compute, storage, and hybrid cloud

Experience with VDI platforms ("Azure Virtual Desktop, VMware Horizon, Citrix, etc.")

Experience with Windows and Linux based enterprise environments

Strong background in active directory, databases, infrastructure data lakes, and serverless computing

Handson with IaC and automation platforms ("Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitOps")

Familiarity with observability platforms (Azure Monitor, PRTG, or similar)

Experience with cloud cost management / FinOps

Excellent communicator who can bridge technical and business teams

Passion for learning and working with emerging technologies

Coding skills in PowerShell, Python, Terraform, and/or cloud native IaC

Nice to Have

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration

Experience with HPC/GPU compute environments

Knowledge of MQTT, data historians, and subsurface data workflows

Familiarity with big data platforms (Hadoop, Spark, Delta Lake)

Handson with Nutanix, HyperV, ProxMox

Exposure to AI workloads, agentbased AI solutions, and supporting innovation teams

Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Terraform

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