Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

PLACE•Bethesda, MD

6d•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 Azure DevOps Engineer, you’ll partner with our Platform & Infrastructure Engineering leadership, founders, and executives to architect and govern our enterprise Azure 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.
Deep expertise in Azure - App Services, AKS, Key Vault, API Management.
Experience turning expertise into infrastructure-as-code.
Comfortable designing zero-downtime deployment strategies.
Experience leading root-cause analysis after production incidents.
Security and cost considerations built into every architecture decision.
Mentors generously.
Communicates clearly with product and engineering leadership.
Proven experience at scale.
Certifications.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain enterprise Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC); establish and enforce cloud architecture standards and operational best practices.
Develop reusable infrastructure modules and deployment patterns, and monitor/optimize Azure infrastructure costs (FinOps) without compromising reliability.
Design, implement, and govern Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines; standardize deployment processes across multiple development teams, including blue-green, canary, and zero-downtime strategies.
Design and maintain load-testing environments and automated performance testing strategies; validate auto-scaling configurations for Azure App Services, AKS, APIs, and databases.
Implement security controls aligned with enterprise standards, including Azure Key Vault, Managed Identity, RBAC, and least-privilege access models.
Design, configure, and maintain Azure WAF policies and Azure API Management (APIM), including throttling, rate limiting, and API governance standards.
Implement enterprise observability using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics/KQL; lead root cause analysis following production incidents.
Mentor engineers on Azure, DevOps, automation, and cloud-native architecture; lead technical design reviews and serve as subject matter expert for cloud operations and platform reliability.
Partner with product and engineering teams using Agile/Scrum practices to align infrastructure delivery with business priorities.