Senior Platform Engineer (IT Services)
Charles River Associates4 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and standardize hybrid infrastructure platforms across on-premises datacenters and public cloud environments.
- Develop reusable platform services, golden images, reference architectures, engineering guardrails, and self-service provisioning capabilities.
- Create Infrastructure-as-Code modules and automation workflows for provisioning, compliance validation, lifecycle management, patching, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Engineer and optimize hybrid cloud environments across VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure, AWS, and future cloud platforms.
- Support cloud landing zones, workload discovery, migration readiness, provisioning, cutovers, and validation for multi-cloud migrations.
- Manage cloud-enabled identity and directory services, including Active Directory/Azure AD integration, Entra, RBAC/ABAC, policy-based access control, service principals, and secrets management.
- Implement and troubleshoot hybrid network connectivity, segmentation, routing, firewall rules, load balancing, and workload performance requirements.
- Advance cloud governance, policy enforcement, tagging, cost management, FinOps reporting, observability, and infrastructure security.
- Partner with cloud, networking, security, automation, and application teams on platform roadmaps and modernization initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technology-related discipline; a master’s degree is preferred.
- 8+ years supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and multi-cloud hyperscalers, including Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- 5+ years working with Terraform and advanced understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and enterprise source control platforms.
- Experience with Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python scripting, and REST APIs.
- Experience with cloud governance, policy management, FinOps practices, cloud networking, DNS, cloud-enabled identity services, security controls, and hybrid connectivity.
- Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk.
- Azure, AWS, cloud-related, or HashiCorp Terraform certifications are preferred or desirable.
- Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, hybrid cloud architectures, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, OpenShift, Databricks infrastructure, AI platform hosting, enterprise data platforms, and AIOps or monitoring integrations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards program, benefits package, wellness programming, and in-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers.
- Formal and informal skills development, technical training, internal seminars, career mentoring, performance coaching, and leadership opportunities.
- Expected to work in the office at least 3 to 4 days per week, with specific days coordinated with the team; travel to another CRA office or client meetings may occur.
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About Charles River Associates
Charles River Associates provides economic, financial, and management consulting to corporations, law firms, and government agencies, with deep practices in antitrust, life sciences, energy, and forensic services. The firm sells fee-based expert analysis and testimony in litigation and regulatory matters and advises on strategy and valuation. Founded in 1965 and headquartered in Boston, it is a public company listed on NASDAQ with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.