Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer

Bain & Company is hiring a lead Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer in Houston. What you'll do: code review, on-call, incident response, and deployment / devops, work across the infrastructure, security, and compliance domains. Qualifications: 6+ years of experience and familiarity with Python, Go, Bash, Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Full-time, hybrid, paying $141K–$154K.

Hiring signals for Network and Computer Systems Administrators

SOC 15-1244 — measured across all currently-active postings classified to this occupation.

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Network and Computer Systems Administrators Job Market Score

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Pay matches the national median ($151k vs $138k national)
Slow inflow of new postings (only 6% from the last 14 days)
Few reposted listings (27% appear duplicated)

Network and Computer Systems Administrators job market

Aggregated from currently-active postings tracked in Network and Computer Systems Administrators.

1,445Active postings
60Posted this week
439Open 30+ days30% of active
222Remote / hybrid15% of active
8%List salary118 of 1,445
0%Hourly0 of disclosed
$151kMedian annual (max)
—Median hourly (max)
19dMedian agep90 67d (long tail)

Wages by category

Bucket	Jobs	Median annual	Median hourly
DevOps / SRE	897	$155k n=65	—
Engineering	245	$144k n=24	—
VP	17	—	—
Food Service	11	—	—
Director	11	—	—

Wages by employment type

Bucket	Jobs	Median annual	Median hourly
Full-time	50	$167k n=26	—
Contract	50	$158k n=21	—
Intern	12	—	—
Temporary	3	—	—
Part-time	2	—	—

Wages by sector

Bucket	Jobs	Median annual	Median hourly
Technology	751	$158k n=95	—
Manufacturing	343	$120k n=17	—
Financial Services	330	$189k n=13	—
Professional Services	262	$158k n=20	—
Government / Public Sector	155	$101k n=10	—

Top categories

DevOps / SRE897
Engineering245
VP17
Food Service11
Director11
Server / Host10

In-demand skills

AWS307
Azure279
Kubernetes222
Google Cloud210
Python187
Linux167
Terraform154
Docker135

Top sectors

Technology751
Manufacturing343
Financial Services330
Professional Services262
Government / Public Sector155
Healthcare55

Employment mix

Unspecified1,328 · 92%
Full-time50 · 3%
Contract50 · 3%
Intern12 · 1%
Temporary3 · 0%
Part-time2 · 0%

Top hiring companies

Category: DevOps / SRE
Salary: $141k–$154k · fulltime · hybrid
Source: bain.com
Original link: https://www.bain.com/careers/find-a-role/position/?jobid=104344
Posted: 2 weeks ago (2026-04-25)
Status: active

Skills: Python, Go, Bash, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana

Topics: Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, Education

Activities: Code review, On-call, Incident response, Deployment / DevOps, Cross-functional collaboration

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