Senior Platform Engineer (IT Services)

The role

The Senior Platform Engineer will design, build, and improve hybrid infrastructure platforms across on-premises datacenters and public cloud environments. The role focuses on platform engineering, automation, and infrastructure-as-code to deliver scalable and secure services.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain hybrid infrastructure platforms supporting public cloud and on-premises environments.
• Develop reusable platform services for self-service provisioning and standardized 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, lifecycle management, patching, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules and automation pipelines.
• Engineer and optimize hybrid cloud environments across VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure, AWS, and future cloud platforms.
• Support a Cloud Landing Zone architecture pattern.
• Execute migration tasks for workloads moving to multi-cloud strategy.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technology-related discipline
• 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

Nice to have

• Master’s degree
• Azure/AWS Solutions Architect or cloud related certifications
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate or Advanced certifications
• 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

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• life and disability insurance
• paid time off (vacation, sick leave, holidays)
• paid parental leave
• wellness programs and employee assistance resources
• commuter benefits
• robust skills development programs
• in-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers

About the company

Charles River Associates is a premier consulting firm that offers employees a place to learn from a diverse group of consultants, industry experts, and academics. The firm uses economic, financial, and business analysis to solve complex world problems for clients including major law firms, Fortune 100 companies, and government agencies.