Senior Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer

Charles River Associates International; Boston, Chicago, Dallas (MA, IL, TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Employer Match

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Job summary

Charles River Associates is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve hybrid infrastructure platforms spanning on‑premises and public cloud environments. You will develop reusable platform services, establish standards, and contribute to enterprise roadmaps, enabling automation-first operational practices.

The role partners with cloud, networking, security, and application teams to advance the firm’s hybrid cloud strategy and optimize costs while delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in a technology-related discipline.
• 8+ years supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and multi-cloud hyperscalers (Azure/AWS).
• 5+ years working with Terraform and IaC methodologies.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines with GitOps.
• Experience building automation using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Rest APIs.
• Experience with cloud governance, policy management, and FinOps practices.
• Hands-on with cloud observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, etc.).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, or OpenShift.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain hybrid infrastructure platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Develop reusable platform services enabling self-service provisioning and standardized deployment.
• Establish platform standards, reference architectures, and guardrails; contribute to roadmaps.
• Advance CRA's hybrid cloud strategy through governance, cost optimization, and automation.

Job description

Charles River Associates is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve hybrid infrastructure platforms spanning on‑premises and public cloud environments. You will develop reusable platform services, establish standards, and contribute to enterprise roadmaps, enabling automation-first operational practices.

The role partners with cloud, networking, security, and application teams to advance the firm’s hybrid cloud strategy and optimize costs while delivering