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About this Cloud Architect role at Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum · Onsite · Houston, Texas

Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life. The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. To learn more, visit Oxy

Oxy strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business.

Cloud Architecture & Strategy

  • Design and architect enterprise cloud solutions across AWS and Azure.
  • Define cloud platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
  • Evaluate application requirements and recommend appropriate hosting models, including Kubernetes, containers, serverless, and platform services.
  • Support cloud adoption initiatives while ensuring scalability, security, and operational sustainability.

Platform Engineering

  • Architect and manage Kubernetes platforms, including EKS, AKS, ECS, and container services.
  • Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using Terraform and cloud-native tooling.
  • Create self-service platform capabilities that enable application teams to deploy and manage workloads efficiently.
  • Establish engineering standards for cloud platform onboarding, deployment, and lifecycle management.

Cloud Operations & Reliability

  • Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring, observability, and incident response processes.
  • Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to improve service availability, resiliency, MTTD, and MTTR.
  • Implement operational runbooks, automated remediation, and continuous improvement practices.
  • Support production platforms and ensure high availability of business-critical services.

DevOps & Automation

  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Git-based workflows, and cloud-native deployment processes.
  • Automate provisioning, configuration, compliance, and deployment activities.
  • Promote DevOps and platform engineering practices across development and operations teams.
  • Reduce manual effort through automation and infrastructure standardization.

Observability & FinOps

  • Architect monitoring and observability solutions using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, and enterprise observability platforms.
  • Define and implement dashboards, alerts, SLIs, SLOs, and reliability metrics.
  • Support cloud cost optimization initiatives through FinOps practices, capacity planning, and resource governance.
  • Provide visibility into platform health, utilization, and operational performance.  

Security & Governance

  • Ensure cloud solutions comply with enterprise security, networking, IAM, and governance requirements.
  • Partner with security teams to implement cloud guardrails and compliance controls.
  • Review platform architectures for resiliency, risk management, and operational readiness.
  • Promote secure-by-design architecture principles.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or DevOps engineering.
  • Deep expertise in AWS and Azure services.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), containers, and cloud networking.
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
  • Experience implementing observability platforms and operational monitoring solutions.
  • Strong understanding of SRE, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud operating models.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional and/or Azure Architect certifications.
  • Experience building enterprise AI/ML or cloud platforms.
  • Experience leading cloud transformation and modernization initiatives.
  • Knowledge of FinOps, platform engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
  • Experience supporting multi-cloud enterprise environments. 

Recruitment Fraud
 
It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website.
 
Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:
 
•  Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees
 
•  Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or
 
•  Request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process.
 
We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local police department.


All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

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About Occidental Petroleum

Oxy produces energy and essential products to sustain and improve life on our planet. Our experienced teams, located in the United States, Middle East and Africa, are committed to safe and efficient operations and products, and to reducing our carbon footprint and helping others do the same. We are busy developing the big ideas and broad solutions we will need to achieve net zero. Every day, we get closer. And we won’t stop until we’re there.

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