Description
Charles River Associates has been a premier consulting firm for over 50 years, offering 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.
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.
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.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Platform Engineering & Service Enablement: 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.
- Infrastructure Automation & IaC: 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.
- Cloud-enabled Operations & Support: Engineer and optimize hybrid cloud environments across VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure, AWS, and future cloud platforms. Support a 'Cloud Landing Zone' architecture pattern.
Desired Qualifications:
- 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 to enable automated, secure, and scalable infrastructure and application delivery;
- Experience building automation using ansible, bash, powershell, python scripting, and Rest APIs;
- Experience with cloud governance, policy management, and FinOps practices.
Career Growth and Benefits:
- CRA's robust skills development programs, including both formal and informal programs, encourage you to thrive as an individual and team member.
- We offer a comprehensive total rewards program including a superior benefits package, wellness programming to support physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being, and in-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers.