Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Platform Engineer (AWS)

Bain Capital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain Capital is seeking a Senior Cloud / Platform Operations Engineer in Boston, MA to own day-to-day AWS and Kubernetes operations, ensuring high availability and performance across production environments. The role focuses on automation, incident response, and platform governance with strong collaboration across engineering, security, and infrastructure teams.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on Kubernetes and AWS expertise, experience in production incidents, and a proactive approach to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Hands-on experience administering production Kubernetes environments, including cluster installation and lifecycle management, upgrades and patching, networking, ingress, storage, RBAC, and troubleshooting workloads.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations of AWS and Kubernetes environments ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, and container platform issues.
• Execute platform maintenance activities including upgrades, patching, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Continuously improve operational processes, automation, and platform stability.
• Operate and maintain production Kubernetes clusters including upgrades and patching.
• Support AWS governance guardrails, security controls, and access policies.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; perform root-cause analysis.
• Document operational procedures and contribute to knowledge sharing.

Skills

AWS administration

Kubernetes administration

Linux administration

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Observability/Monitoring

Incident response

Security best practices

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Datadog

Job description

Bain Capital is seeking a Senior Cloud / Platform Operations Engineer in Boston, MA to own day-to-day AWS and Kubernetes operations, ensuring high availability and performance across production environments. The role focuses on automation, incident response, and platform governance with strong collaboration across engineering, security, and infrastructure teams.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on Kubernetes and AWS expertise, experience in production incidents, and a proactive approach to