Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
US$165,000 – US$170,000 / yr base salary
Posted 28 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer”
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| Base salary | US$165,000 – US$170,000 / yr |
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Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
You’re Opportunity:
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.
Who Develops You: VP Software Engineering and IT Operations
What You’re Great At:
You are a hands-on cloud platform expert who thinks in systems, not just servers. You’ve spent years deep in AWS — EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, API Gateway — and you know how to turn that expertise into infrastructure-as-code that other engineers can trust and build on. You’re as comfortable standing up a multi-region disaster recovery plan as you are leading a root-cause analysis after a production incident. Security and cost aren’t afterthoughts for you; they’re built into every architecture decision you make. You mentor generously, communicate clearly with product and engineering leadership, and you’ve got the scars — and the certifications — to prove you’ve done this at scale before.
What You’ll Do:
- 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.