Senior Platform & Automation Architect

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Texas (USA) Job Type Full-time Description Fervo is building the most cost-effective, repeatable geothermal power plants in the world. Scaling that mission requires disciplined, automation-first digital systems that enable engineering speed, reliability, and operational rigor. The Senior Platform & Automation Architect, within IT Infrastructure, defines the standards and builds the foundational automation that power how Fervo develops software, provisions infrastructure, and scales data and IoT systems. The Senior Platform & Automation Architect owns Fervo’s platform engineering and automation roadmap. This role establishes reusable patterns and guardrails for SDLC, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, network automation, and data/IoT pipelines, including the integration and enablement of AI toolsets to accelerate development and operations. Working across Data, AI, Controls, Exploration, R&D, and Infrastructure teams, this role reduces friction, increases delivery reliability, and ensures systems are secure, scalable, and auditable across corporate and plant environments. Success requires strong hands-on technical depth and sound architectural judgment. Requirements Responsibilities Platform & Developer Enablement • Define and evolve SDLC standards, repository structures, branching models, and release governance • Build reusable CI/CD templates with automated testing, promotion controls, and rollback capabilities • Establish “golden path” reference architectures and self-service automation workflows • Implement guardrails for secrets management, artifact versioning, and environment promotion • Define and evolve standards and safe practices for enabling software developers and citizen developers to leverage AI coding tools through secure, self-service development workflows, ensuring ease of use while maintaining robust security and compliance controls. Infrastructure & Network Automation • Establish Infrastructure as Code standards, reusable modules, and policy-as-code controls • Improve infrastructure provisioning speed and consistency through automation-first design • Partner with cloud and network architects to implement validated automation patterns for configuration, rollout, and change control Data & IoT Automation • Define repeatable patterns for batch and streaming data pipelines with validation and observability • Automate data scheduling, quality controls, and telemetry standardization • Architect secure ingestion and monitoring workflows for plant and field sensor data Governance & Operational Excellence • Embed auditability and change tracking into CI/CD and infrastructure workflows • Develop documentation, standards, and runbooks to support adoption at scale • Lead design reviews and cross-functional technical enablement sessions • Support critical releases and platform-level incident response as needed Qualifications Required • 7+ years of experience in software, platform, DevOps, or infrastructure automation roles, including senior ownership of engineering standards and cross-team enablement • 2+ years of hands-on experience with AI-based workloads, applying strong software engineering practices and building agent-based systems using tools such as Claude, Cursor, Codex, or similar • Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Go, with demonstrated ability to ship secure, testable production code • Strong Git and GitOps expertise, operating Git as the source of truth for declarative environment management • Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, promotion controls, and reliable rollback • Hands-on experience building and operating containerized services and Kubernetes platforms • Ability to build modern web interfaces (React preferred) and integrate them with secure REST APIs using sound authentication and performance practices • Experience designing secure REST APIs with proper versioning, idempotency, pagination, and rate limiting • Experience building or operating batch and streaming data pipelines with validation, schema evolution, and backfill strategies • Strong observability and production operations skills, including logs, metrics, traces, and runbook development Preferred • Experience supporting IT systems in OT-adjacent or plant environments • Familiarity with SCADA systems, data historians, or industrial telemetry • Experience implementing policy-as-code controls and audit-aligned SDLC practices • Exposure to event-driven or microservices architectures • Experience supporting AI/ML or agent-based workloads in production Travel & On-Call Travel • Up to 20% travel may be required to support plant and remote site enablement, including on-site implementation, rollout support, operational readiness validation, and cross-functional coordination with field engineering and operations teams. On-Call • Participation in on-call rotations may be required to support critical platform releases, incident response, and scheduled maintenance windows. This includes providing timely technical leadership during high-impact events and ensuring platform stability across production environments. This offer from "Fervo Energy" has been enriched by Jobgether.com and got a 72% flex score.