Staff Infrastructure Engineer: AI & Cloud Platform Lead

Bain & Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 141,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Bain & Company in Chicago is seeking a Staff Engineer I to lead and contribute to AI-driven platform infrastructure. You will focus on building scalable cloud solutions, web applications, APIs, and automation that empower Bain employees using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and AI services.

You will mentor peers, collaborate across Platform Infrastructure and AI Tech, and uphold security, reliability, and best practices while delivering high-impact platforms for cloud and AI needs.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of Infrastructure Engineering experience in cloud platforms and automation.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP and/or private datacenter management.
• Proficient in scripting and IaC: Python, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, PowerShell, Ansible.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, code reviews, deployments, and pipelines.
• Familiar with logging/monitoring tools: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Experience with identity solutions: Active Directory, AzureAD, Okta, LDAP.
• Knowledge of public cloud landing zones.
• Preferred experience with Agentic Coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Replit, v0).
• Knowledge of databases, data engineering, data science or BI tech.
• Go or Python for automation.
• Terraform & Vault.
• Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, lead building and maintaining infrastructure and solutions to support availability, orchestration, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of environments.
• Develop blueprints or engineer new solutions as requirements dictate.
• Make security a priority at every step of the lifecycle.
• Supervise code changes or major changes.
• Mentor and coach junior team members.
• Help define and advocate for effective development practices.
• Lead identifying issues with efficiency, stability, availability, and security and propose improvements.
• Help establish corporate technology standards and guidelines.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Scripting & IaC

CI/CD

Logging & Monitoring

Identity solutions

Public cloud

Automation scripting

Education

Associate's/Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Vault

Job description

Bain & Company in Chicago is seeking a Staff Engineer I to lead and contribute to AI-driven platform infrastructure. You will focus on building scalable cloud solutions, web applications, APIs, and automation that empower Bain employees using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and AI services.

You will mentor peers, collaborate across Platform Infrastructure and AI Tech, and uphold security, reliability, and best practices while delivering high-impact platforms for cloud and AI needs.