Bain Capital, LP

Bain Capital, LP

Cloud/Platform Operations Manager

Boston

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$210kDetected 7 days ago
AWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaPlatform EngineeringIncident ResponseAgileStakeholder ManagementCustomer SupportLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • With approximately $225 billion of assets under management, Bain Capital is one of the world's leading private investment firms.
  • Over four decades we have strategically grown our platform to focus on Private Equity, Growth & Venture, Capital Solutions, Credit, and Real Assets.
  • Today, our team includes 1,985+ employees in 24 offices on four continents.

Responsibilities

  • Own the day-to-day operations of AWS and Kubernetes environments, ensuring reliability, availability, and performance.
  • Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for complex Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure issues.
  • Lead a ticket-driven support model, prioritizing and ensuring timely fulfillment of internal user requests.
  • Establish and enforce SLAs/SLOs for platform support and operational responsiveness.
  • Drive a culture of execution, accountability, and customer service within the team.
  • Define, implement, and enforce AWS guardrails, IAM policies, and governance frameworks.
  • Partner with security teams to enforce best practices and reduce risk across the platform.
  • Maintain and troubleshoot Kubernetes control planes, worker nodes, networking, storage, ingress, and containerized workloads.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or platform operations, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
  • Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting production Kubernetes environments, including cluster operations, troubleshooting, upgrades, networking, storage, ingress, and workload management.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently diagnose and resolve complex Kubernetes platform issues in production.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including IAM, networking, account structure, and governance controls.
  • Proven experience managing AWS guardrails, policies, and access controls at scale.
  • Experience with Kubernetes observability and operational tooling (such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Fluent Bit, or similar).
  • Deep operational experience running and supporting Kubernetes environments in production.

Compensation

  • Expected Annual Base Salary $180k-$210k
  • Actual base salary will be determined by a wide range of factors including but not limited to role, function, level, experience, qualifications and geographic location.
  • In addition to a competitive base salary, this position may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based upon factors such as individual impact, team and firm performance.

Benefits

  • Own the operational health and lifecycle management of production Kubernetes clusters.
  • Bain Capital offers a competitive benefits package designed to support employees' health, financial security, family needs, and overall well-being.
  • We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Equal opportunity

  • Bain Capital is an equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status

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