Senior Platform Engineer: Hybrid Cloud & IaC

Charles River Associates International; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Job summary

Charles River Associates in the United States seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve its hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises datacenters and public clouds. You will focus on platform engineering, automation, IaC, and operational excellence to deliver scalable, secure services.

The role covers platform services, IaC with Terraform, Ansible, and workflows; cloud governance and security; collaboration across IT to enable self-service provisioning and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technology related discipline.
• Azure/AWS Solutions Architect or cloud certifications preferred.
• 8+ years supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and multi-cloud environments.
• 5+ years working with Terraform & IaC methodologies.
• CI/CD pipelines and GitOps with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.
• Automation using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs.
• Cloud governance, policy management, and FinOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain hybrid infrastructure platforms across cloud and on-prem.
• Develop reusable platform services for self-service provisioning.
• Establish platform standards, golden images, reference architectures, and guardrails.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps and modernization initiatives.
• Develop and maintain IaC like Terraform, Terraform Cloud, Bicep, Ansible.
• Build automation workflows for provisioning, compliance, lifecycle management, patching, backup, DR.
• Support hybrid cloud operations across VMware, Azure, AWS, and future platforms.

Skills

Cloud design

DevOps practices

Automation scripting

Collaboration

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

Master's degree preferred

Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS)

Terraform Associate/Advanced certs

Tools

Terraform

Terraform Cloud

Ansible

Bicep

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure AD

Job description

Charles River Associates in the United States seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve its hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises datacenters and public clouds. You will focus on platform engineering, automation, IaC, and operational excellence to deliver scalable, secure services.

The role covers platform services, IaC with Terraform, Ansible, and workflows; cloud governance and security; collaboration across IT to enable self-service provisioning and