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 is above the national median ($151k vs $129k national)
Few reposted listings (27% appear duplicated)
Slow inflow of new postings (only 27% from the last 14 days)

Network and Computer Systems Administrators job market

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

1,588Active postings
7Posted this week
507Open 30+ days32% of active
260Remote / hybrid16% of active
10%List salary158 of 1,588
0%Hourly0 of disclosed
$151kMedian annual (max)
—Median hourly (max)
17dMedian agep90 67d (long tail)

Wages by category

Bucket	Jobs	Median annual	Median hourly
DevOps / SRE	989	$154k n=97	—
Engineering	267	$144k n=33	—
VP	19	—	—
Server / Host	17	$129k n=8	—
Backend	10	—	—

Wages by employment type

Bucket	Jobs	Median annual	Median hourly
Full-time	95	$165k n=53	—
Contract	50	$158k n=17	—
Intern	17	$254k n=4	—
Part-time	6	$163k n=4	—
Temporary	4	—	—

Wages by sector

Bucket	Jobs	Median annual	Median hourly
Technology	841	$151k n=127	—
Financial Services	385	$189k n=19	—
Manufacturing	357	$120k n=19	—
Professional Services	308	$160k n=26	—
Government / Public Sector	160	$101k n=10	—

Top categories

DevOps / SRE989
Engineering267
VP19
Server / Host17
Backend10
Director10

In-demand skills

AWS366
Azure328
Kubernetes295
Python273
Google Cloud252
Linux228
Terraform207
Docker178

Top sectors

Technology841
Financial Services385
Manufacturing357
Professional Services308
Government / Public Sector160
Healthcare58

Employment mix

Unspecified1,416 · 89%
Full-time95 · 6%
Contract50 · 3%
Intern17 · 1%
Part-time6 · 0%
Temporary4 · 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: 1 week 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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