Staff I Infrastructure Engineer, Tech Solutions Group

Bain & Company, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Fully vested 401(k)

Job summary

Bain & Company, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer I to join the AI Tech team in our Platform Infrastructure group in Massachusetts.

You will collaborate on building automated, secure infrastructure and AI-enabled platforms for Bain employees, using tools like Claude Code, Codex, OpenAI, and Terraform. You will work as a technical leader, designing and delivering cloud and AI platform solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP, with emphasis on automation, security, and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Experience with public cloud landing zones.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain public and private infrastructure and solutions to support availability, orchestration, configuration, maintenance and monitoring.
• Lead engineering of new cloud and AI platform solutions as required.
• Mentor junior team members and champion secure coding practices.
• Define and advocate for effective development practices and standards.

Skills

Cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Automation scripting

CI/CD

Monitoring/logging (Datadog/Grafana/PR

Education

Associate/Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Ansible

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world’s best places to work. We are currently the top ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

The Staff Engineer I will collaborate mostly with members of the AI Tech team, within the Platform Infrastructure group, using AI tooling (Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, OpenAI ChatGPT, Replit, v0, etc.) to deliver automated, self-service, and secure infrastructure and application solutions for all Bain employees.

The AI Tech team occasionally collaborates with internal consulting teams to help those teams support the work they are delivering to their clients. As part of the Platform Infrastructure, the team works closely with various groups, including Capabilities, Cloud Platform, Solutions Engineering, and Architecture, to build enterprise solutions across Bain.

WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

You will work as an individual contributor and technical leader within the AI Tech team. The tech team currently consists of four people, so we are looking for someone who can jump in to help and lead with the development of web applications, APIs, agents, MCPs, Terraform and other processes that automate the build of cloud and AI platforms.

You will work closely with two engineers to drive the development and execution of various platforms and services provided to all of Bain employees (AITech, CloudLaunch, Agentic Build Platform, Licensing Processes, etc.). While you will be working with AI tooling as a thought partner, having the experience and understanding of development/scripting languages is a plus. The platforms and processes you create will automate the build of and access to cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and AI Platforms (Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, Portkey, etc.). Having knowledge of at least one cloud platform is also a plus.

You must be adaptable, eager to learn, self-driven, and self-motivated. In addition to platform and solution delivery responsibilities, you will also play a key role in identifying areas for continuous improvement and implementing best practices.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Platform & Solution Delivery (60%)

• Help design, lead building and maintaining public and private infrastructure and solutions to support the availability, orchestration, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of infrastructure environments
• Develop blueprints or engineer new solutions as requirements dictate
• Make security a priority at every step of the infrastructure, application and product lifecycle
• Supervise code changes or major changes
• Mentor and coach junior team members
• Help define and advocate for effective development practices

Continuous Improvement (40%)

• Lead identifying issues with efficiency, stability, availability, and security of existing code and infrastructure, and bring new ideas to the table to improve overall delivery of services
• Help to establish, implement and adhere to the corporate technology standards and guidelines

ABOUT YOU

Experience

5-8+ years of Infrastructure Engineering experience that includes:

• Multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure or GCP) or private datacenter management, familiar with other providers
• Scripting, infrastructure as code and automation languages and tools (Python, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, PowerShell and Ansible)
• CI/CD processes, code reviews, code deployments and pipelines
• Logging and monitoring solutions such as Datadog, Grafana and Prometheus
• Identity solutions such as Active Directory, AzureAD, Okta or LDAP
• Public cloud landing zone architectures

Preferred experience with

• Agentic Coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Replit, or v0, etc.)
• Databases, data engineering, data science or business intelligence technology
• Go or Python for cloud platform and infrastructure API automation
• Hashicorp Cloud Platform (Terraform & Vault)
• Containers, Docker and Kubernetes

Education

• Associate's/Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong in secure infrastructure frameworks and cloud security best practices
• Demonstrated excellence in applying automation to all aspects of technical operations
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong ability to communicate at all levels of the entire organization and with customers
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and processes
• Understanding of data visualization, data modeling, and compute scaling
• Knowledge of developing and releasing production solutions leveraging public cloud and SaaS infrastructure or tools

U.S. COMPENSATION INFORMATION

Compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, 401(k) plan with an annual employer contribution based on years of service and Bain’s best in class benefits package (details listed below).

Some local governments in the United States require a good-faith, reasonable salary range to be included in job postings for open roles.

The estimated annualized compensation for this role is as follows:

• In Massachusetts, the good-faith, reasonable annualized full-time salary range for this role is between $147,250 - $176,750
• In Illinois, the good-faith, reasonable annualized full-time salary range for this role is between $141,000 - $169,250
• Annual discretionary performance bonus
• 4.5% 401(k) company contribution, which increases after 3 years of service and is 100% vested upon start date
• This role may also be eligible for other elements of discretionary compensation

Bain Benefits

Bain & Company's comprehensive benefits and wellness program is designed to help employees achieve personal independence, protection and stability in the areas most important to you and your family.

• Bain pays 100% individual employee premiums for medical, dental and vision programs, offering one of the most comprehensive medical plans for employees without impacting your paycheck
• Generous paid time off, including parental leave, sick leave and paid holidays
• Fully vested 401(k) company contribution
• Paid Life and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Annual fitness reimbursements