Senior Platform Engineer: Hybrid Cloud & IaC

Charles River Associates - Private; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness program

Immigration support

Career growth programs

Job summary

Charles River Associates seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve hybrid infrastructure platforms spanning on-prem and cloud environments. You will automate infrastructure, establish standards, and enable self-service provisioning while partnering with cloud, security, and network teams to drive modernization and cost optimization.

The role emphasizes platform engineering, IaC, observability, and governance with a strong focus on automation-first operations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in a technology-related field; Master’s preferred.
• 8+ years supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain hybrid infrastructure platforms across on-prem and public cloud environments.
• Develop reusable platform services for self-service provisioning and standardized deployment.
• Establish standards, golden images, reference architectures, and guardrails.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps and modernization initiatives.

Skills

Terraform

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Bash

REST APIs

Kubernetes

VMware vSphere

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s preferred

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure Monitor

Datadog

Job description

Charles River Associates seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve hybrid infrastructure platforms spanning on-prem and cloud environments. You will automate infrastructure, establish standards, and enable self-service provisioning while partnering with cloud, security, and network teams to drive modernization and cost optimization.

The role emphasizes platform engineering, IaC, observability, and governance with a strong focus on automation-first operations