ABOUT HESS CORPORATION

Hess is a leading international independent energy company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas.

We have an industry leading position in the Bakken in North Dakota – a key U.S. shale play. Hess is also one of the largest producers in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and a key natural gas producer and supplier to Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand. The company is engaged in exploration and appraisal activities offshore Guyana, participating in one of the industry’s largest oil discoveries in the past decade, as well as the Gulf of Mexico, Suriname and Nova Scotia.

Hess aims to attract, retain and energize the best people by investing in their professional development and providing them with challenging and rewarding opportunities for personal growth. We are always looking for talented professionals who share our values and are passionate about making a difference in the world and in their careers. We strive to meet the highest standards of corporate citizenship by protecting the health and safety of our employees, safeguarding the environment and creating a long-lasting, positive impact on the communities where we do business.

For more information about Hess Corporation, please visit our website at Hess.com.

Position Summary

Serve as the Operational Lead for the Cloud Platform with a core focus on cost effective operationalization of various platform processes and resources. Develop cloud-first based on approved standards, procedures, and in alignment with our multi-year IT strategy. This role will be a leader and play critical function in our transition to “software defined infrastructure”. A successful candidate will enable our application development & integration teams to efficiently deploy digital products to our business partners. The architectural foundational element will be constructed on enabling safe, cost effective & reliable operations while providing the organization the capability to take advantage of hybrid cloud compute benefits (scale, agility, reduced costs). Successfully working with multiple IT stakeholders (IT Cloud Advisor, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, Planning, Application & Data Teams) is needed to successfully embed and operationalize hybrid cloud compute benefits within the organization.

Essential Roles & Responsibilities:

• Optimize Operations
  • Develop, promote, and maintain an infrastructure as code mentality across service provider, infrastructure, and application teams.
  • Ensure operational lead to run and support secure, reliable, scalable cloud resources to support both our business partners and our internal application development & integration teams.
  • Stay up to date with Azure and on-premises future and current capabilities.
  • Review and authorize change requests from service providers.
  • Focus on operationalizing Cyber Resiliency and Disaster Recovery.
• Cost Management
  • Review cost estimates for new cloud infrastructure.
  • Capture billing details for new cloud infrastructure.
  • Execute monthly cloud infrastructure recharge process.
  • Work with application owners to ensure platform costs as monitored and managed within budget.
  • Work with service provider to continually drive inefficiencies out of the system.
• Contribute to and operationalize our strategic platform roadmap and maintain alignment with governance teams:
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Cyber Security
  • IT Cloud Advisor
  • IT Service Management
  • IT Planning
• Work with Service Providers to
  • Cultivate strong relationships and a high performing team.
  • Maintain platform governance.
  • Review and ensure runbooks are current and relevant.
  • Maintain hardware, service and software lifecycles and asset refresh.
  • Drive automation and standardization and consistent use of process across IT to ensure cyber compliance and cost management are built across the growing platform.

Key skills:

• Deep understanding of the Azure cloud platform
• Influencing without authority
• Persistence and drive for high performing platform and team.
• Compromise & flexibility to exploit appropriate cloud capabilities within process and standards.
• Ease of working across teams in non-confrontational manner
• Data driven problem solving.
• Delivery based mindset.
• Facilitation to bring diverse teams to alignment.
• Demonstrating and setting behavioral expectations across IT
• Process focused and passion to drive improvement.
• Structured approach to work management combined with project delivery experience.
• Strong understanding of abstraction, process, and orchestration
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Well Architected frameworks.

Experience:

• Preferred Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Preferred 10+ Years – Information Technology
• Preferred 5+ Years – Infrastructure operations
  • Broad experience of running the core IT operations and processes – Compute, Network, Storage, Cyber, Database, Backups, Monitoring, Cost Optimization, Audit
• Minimum 3-5 Years
  • Azure
  • Azure IaaS, PaaS operations
  • Azure cost management
  • DevSecOps processes and pipelines
  • Experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code toolsets
    • Ansible
    • Terraform
    • Azure DevOps
    • GitHub
    • Powershell
• Desired:
  • Application development experience,
  • Experience working with an ISP or MSP.
  • Azure Certifications (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-204).

Competencies

The Hess Way of Working refers to competencies considered absolute pre-requisites for success. How you deliver results is as important as what you achieve. Every employee is expected to demonstrate the behaviors within these competencies to be considered an effective performer and, ultimately, earn career growth opportunities.

• Builds Trusted Relationships
• Develops Talent
• Creates Effective Teams
• Thinks Strategically
• Inspires Innovation
• Demonstrates Courage
• Drives Continuous Improvement
• Makes Quality Decisions
• Delivers High Performance

Hess is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Hess is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, click here or send an email to MyHR@Hess.com.

Posting Notes: Lisa B Willet | Employee | Information Technology | United States| Texas | Houston | | | | | No | 26743