Cloud Platform Engineer - APIM, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

Charles River Development is looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to build, harden and monitor the infrastructure our SaaS core infrastructure, application platforms, and data platforms - with strong expertise in Azure API Management (APIM) to support our firm’s digital transformation and cloud modernization initiatives.

Requirements

• Design and set up highly available platform components on Azure Cloud
• Design, deploy, and manage Azure API Management (APIM) solutions supporting internal and external financial applications.
• Implement API governance and lifecycle management, ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and data-handling standards required in financial services.
• Collaborate with architecture and security teams to integrate APIM with Azure Application Gateway, Azure AD, and private networking models.
• Establish secure API onboarding processes for business and partner integrations.
• Automate infrastructure deployment using ARM/Bicep/Terraform/Azure Devops and ensure consistency across non-production and production environments.
• Optimize performance and reliability of APIs through monitoring, tuning, and analytics using Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
• Work closely with InfoSec, Risk, and Compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements (e.g., SOC2, ISO27001).
• Support integration of APIM with firewalls, WAFs (e.g., Palo Alto), and zero-trust network architectures.
• Provide technical mentorship to engineers and contribute to cloud best-practice frameworks across the organization.
• Configure and manage the CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps according to best practices
• Balance pragmatism with vision; continually assessing the security posture of cloud applications and deliver improvements to the team’s tools, processes and codebase
• Contribute documentation & collaboration site content to drive knowledge sharing
• Ensure that new cloud solutions properly implement security controls as standards dictate

Benefits

• Generous medical care
• Insurance
• Savings plans
• Flexible Work Programs
• Development programs
• Educational support
• Paid volunteer days
• Matching gift programs
• Employee networks