# Senior Cloud/Platform Operations Engineer

Hiring organization: [Bain Capital](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/bain-capital)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/cdad59b6-8d00-4b1a-a1c8-c9d0ce15085a

Listed on Bain Capital's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Boston, MA
- Salary: 155000 – 180000 USD per year

## Summary

This hands-on operations role focuses on running and maintaining Bain Capital's AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale, with emphasis on reliability, security, and incident response rather than platform tooling development. It suits experienced cloud engineers who prefer troubleshooting production systems and optimizing existing platforms over building new developer tools.

_Our summary, not Bain Capital's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Argo CD, CI/CD, Datadog, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform

## Required

- 5+ years supporting cloud infrastructure in production
- Production Kubernetes administration including cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, patching, networking, ingress, storage, and RBAC
- Hands-on AWS experience with IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, Route 53, CloudWatch, load balancers, and EFS
- AWS governance, IAM policies, and security best practices implementation
- Linux systems administration
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Monitoring and observability tools like Datadog
- Production incident response and on-call participation
- Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

## Nice to have

- Enterprise-scale Kubernetes operations experience
- GitOps tools like Argo CD
- Policy enforcement tools like Kyverno
- Container security platforms and vulnerability management
- AWS Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or CKA certification
- Experience in regulated or security-conscious environments

Apply on Bain Capital's site: https://baincapital.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Public/job/Boston/Senior-Cloud-Platform-Operations-Engineer_REQ_108303-2