Senior Platform & Automation Architect; remote

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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 7+ years of experience in software, platform, Dev Ops, 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 Type Script/JavaScript, Python, or Go, with demonstrated ability to ship secure, testable production code
• Strong Git and Git Ops 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

• Experience supporting IT systems in OT‑adjacent or plant environments
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