Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

PLACE Corporate Careers•Bethesda, MD

5h•$165,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At PLACE, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of real estate, technology, business services, and the consumer. As a profitable, hypergrowth startup, on the path to an IPO, our standards are high, and our team is scrappy, and our commitment is to execute the best work of our lives. This is YOUR CHANCE to shape the backbone of a company that’s scaling rapidly and innovating boldly. As our Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll partner with our Platform & Infrastructure Engineering leadership, founders, and executives to architect and govern our enterprise AWS cloud platform, drive CI/CD and infrastructure automation strategy, and set the technical standards that keep our systems secure, scalable, and reliable across every engineering team. If you thrive in complexity, entrepreneurial problem-solving, and believe in scaling through tech and AI, this is your PLACE. This is a hybrid role based in Bethesda, MD.

Requirements

Hands-on cloud platform expert who thinks in systems, not just servers.
Years of experience deep in AWS — EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora.
Ability to turn expertise into infrastructure-as-code that other engineers can trust and build on.
Experience standing up a multi-region disaster recovery plan.
Experience leading a root-cause analysis after a production incident.
Security and cost are built into every architecture decision.
Mentors generously.
Communicates clearly with product and engineering leadership.
Experience doing this at scale.
Certifications to prove experience.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain enterprise AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC); establish and enforce cloud architecture standards and operational best practices.
Develop reusable infrastructure modules and deployment patterns; monitor and optimize AWS infrastructure costs (FinOps) without compromising reliability; partner with vendors on large-scale, cost-effective cloud solutions.
Design, implement, and govern CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and/or Jenkins/GitHub Actions); standardize deployment processes across multiple development teams.
Design and maintain load-testing environments and automated performance benchmarks; validate auto-scaling for EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, and RDS/Aurora workloads.
Implement security controls aligned with enterprise standards, including IAM roles/policies, AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, and least-privilege access models.
Design, configure, and maintain AWS WAF and Shield policies and Amazon API Gateway, including throttling, rate limiting, usage plans, and API governance standards.
Implement enterprise observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail; lead root cause analysis following production incidents.
Mentor engineers on AWS, DevOps, automation, and cloud-native architecture; lead technical design reviews and serve as subject matter expert for cloud operations and platform reliability.
Work across departments and with product/engineering teams (Agile/Scrum) to establish software standards, drive automation, and align infrastructure delivery with business priorities.