Apply on company website Boston, MA, United States; Chicago, IL, United States Hybrid Full-time USD 130,000 – 140,000 / year

Charles River Associates is hiring a Hybrid Cloud Architect

Responsibilities

  • Analyze current workloads and infrastructure to determine readiness for migration to AWS, Azure, or GCP, identifying potential benefits and obstacles.
  • Evaluate and enhance on-prem compute, storage, and virtualization systems, including VMware vSphere, with focus on capacity, performance, patching, and lifecycle management to support hybrid operations.
  • Collaborate with identity and domain specialists to ensure secure and resilient integration of Active Directory and Azure AD, including group policies, DNS/DHCP, certificate services, and time synchronization.
  • Verify on-prem network architecture—including segmentation, routing, firewalls, and load balancing—to support secure, low-latency connections to cloud platforms via solutions like VPN, ExpressRoute, or Direct Connect.
  • Strengthen on-prem backup and disaster recovery using Rubrik, ensuring proper policies, retention, immutability, and restore testing, while defining hybrid DR models with clear RPO and RTO targets.
  • Lead proof-of-concept projects for hybrid cloud use cases such as analytics environments or burstable VDI, working with infrastructure and modernization teams to validate solutions.
  • Design and deploy cloud governance frameworks covering security, compliance, and financial operations to manage cloud usage effectively.
  • Support automation adoption using tools like Ansible and Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud resources, collaborating with automation engineers to standardize hybrid processes.
  • Coordinate with on-prem and cloud teams to align practices, share knowledge, and advance hybrid initiatives.
  • Document migration procedures, governance standards, and key insights; contribute to team training and capability development.

Benefits

  • Access to comprehensive skills development with a commitment to 100 hours of annual training through formal and informal learning programs.
  • Enhanced benefits package supporting overall employee needs.
  • Wellness initiatives addressing physical, mental, emotional, and financial health.
  • Internal immigration assistance for international hires and business travelers.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Work Arrangement

Boston, Chicago, London, Munich, New York, Oakland, San Francisco, College Station, Washington, DC

Other

  • Employees are expected to work in-office 3 to 4 days per week, which may include travel to other offices or client sites; specific schedules are set in coordination with the team.
  • The organization is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics under applicable law.
Job Details
Location Boston, MA, United States; Chicago, IL, United States
Work mode Hybrid
Employment Full-time
Salary USD 130,000 – 140,000 / year
Department Information Technology (ITS)
Category other
Posted 4 days ago
Application On company website
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Charles River Associates (CRA) is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. Our experts bring a unique combination of cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methods, and proven experience to bear on our clients’ most complex challenges.

CRA specializes in management consulting and economic litigation. Our senior-led teams include leading academic experts and business leaders with experience across industries. Because of our proven skills in complex cases and exceptional strength in analytics, clients depend on our objective, fact-based advice for their high-profile, high stakes matters.

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