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About the Role

The Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and continuously improving the firm's hybrid infrastructure platforms spanning on-premises datacenters and public cloud environments. This role focuses on platform engineering practices, automation, infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence to deliver scalable, secure, and self-service infrastructure services. The engineer will partner closely with cloud, networking, security, automation, and application teams to create reusable platform capabilities, automate infrastructure lifecycle management, and enable modernization initiatives across the enterprise. This position plays a key role in advancing CRA's hybrid cloud strategy through platform standardization, governance, observability, cost optimization, and automation-first operational practices.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain hybrid infrastructure platforms supporting public cloud and on-premises environments.
Develop reusable platform services that enable self-service provisioning and standardized infrastructure deployment.
Establish platform standards, golden images, reference architectures, and engineering guardrails.
Contribute to enterprise platform roadmaps and modernization initiatives.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform, Terraform Cloud, Bicep, Ansible, and automation frameworks.
Build automation workflows for provisioning, compliance validation, lifecycle management, patching, backup, and disaster recovery.
Develop reusable infrastructure modules and automation pipelines following DevOps and Platform Engineering principles.
Engineer and optimize hybrid cloud environments across VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure, AWS, and future cloud platforms.
Support a “Cloud Landing Zone” architecture pattern.
Assist with workload discovery and migration readiness activities, then execute migration tasks for workloads moving to multi-cloud strategy.
Optimize infrastructure and improve day-to-day management of on-premises compute, storage, and virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere) through automated workflows.
Manage a Cloud-enabled Identity and Directory Services implementing and maintaining Active Directory/Azure AD integration (Entra), RBAC/ABAC, policy-based access control, service principals, and secrets management across cloud environments.
Support hybrid network connectivity by implementing, validating, and troubleshooting connectivity between on-prem and cloud environments in partnership with Network Reliability team, InfoSec.
Implement governance controls (guardrails, tagging, policy enforcement), cost management (FinOps) reporting, and secure a hybrid environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in a relevant technology-related discipline.
Azure/AWS Solutions Architect or cloud related certifications preferred, HashiCorp Terraform Associate or Advanced certifications desirable.
8+ years supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and multi-cloud hyperscalers (eg. Azure, AWS, 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 building automation using ansible, bash, powershell, python scripting, and Rest APIs.
Experience with cloud governance, policy management, and FinOps practices.
Understanding of cloud networking, DNS, cloud-enabled identity services, security controls, and hybrid connectivity.
Hands-on experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or similar observability platforms.
Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).
Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere, and hybrid cloud architectures.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, or OpenShift.
Experience with Databricks infrastructure, AI platform hosting, or enterprise data platforms.
Experience integrating AIOps, observability, or monitoring platforms.

Skills

Microsoft
Cloud technologies
Platform engineering
Automation
Infrastructure-as-Code
Terraform
Terraform Cloud
Bicep
Ansible
VMware Cloud Foundation
Azure
AWS
Active Directory/Azure AD integration (Entra)
RBAC/ABAC
Policy-based access control
Service principals
Secrets management
SDWAN
ExpressRoute
Direct Connect
Private Gateways
Segmentation
Routing
Firewall rules
Load balancing
Cloud governance
FinOps
Azure Monitor
Log Analytics
Application Insights
Grafana
Datadog
Splunk
Internal Developer Platforms (IDP)
vSphere
Kubernetes
AKS
EKS
OpenShift
Databricks infrastructure
AI platform hosting
Enterprise data platforms
AIOps
Observability
Monitoring platforms
CI/CD pipelines
GitOps workflows
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Bash scripting
Powershell scripting
Python scripting
Rest APIs

Location

Global

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
8+ years supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and multi-cloud hyperscalers
5+ years working with Terraform

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Master's degree

Benefits

Robust skills development programs
Formal and informal training programs
Research and analysis skill building
Technical training
Presentation skills training
Internal seminars
Career mentoring
Performance coaching
Leadership opportunities
Collaboration opportunities
Comprehensive total rewards program
Superior benefits package
Wellness programming
In-house immigration support

About the Company

Charles River Associates has been a premier consulting firm that offers employees a place to learn from a diverse group of consultants, industry experts, and academics.
At CRA you will be exposed to leading minds who use economic, financial, and business analysis to solve complex world problems for an impressive roster of clients, including major law firms, Fortune 100 companies, and government agencies.
Through a collegial environment, formal and informal training opportunities, and a broad array of professional development resources, your experience at CRA will open doors for you throughout your career.
The Information Technology (ITS) department at Charles River Associates is currently a team of more than 40 professionals dedicated to enhancing, maintaining, and developing the firm's technology infrastructure and security based in offices around the globe.
The team is comprised of four functions: Service Delivery & Telecom, Enterprise Application Solutions, Infrastructure, Networking and Cloud Solutions, Information Security.
Primarily a Microsoft house, CRA is looking to maximize the performance of our on-premise systems and hybrid infrastructure, meaning experience with cloud technologies is essential for this role.

Equal Opportunity

Charles River Associates is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.