About the role
Senior Azure DevOps Engineer
Your 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 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.
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 Azure — App Services, AKS, Key Vault, API Management — and you know how to turn that expertise into infrastructure-as-code that other engineers can trust and build on. You’re as comfortable designing a zero-downtime deployment strategy 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 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.
Salary: $150,000-$155,000/year depending on experience.
Why PLACE
We believe people do their best work when they’re trusted, supported, and surrounded by others who are equally driven. That’s why this role includes a “work from the PLACE you work best” approach – at home, in an office, or on the move. Our competitive benefits include PTO as needed, comprehensive insurance coverage, a 401(k) match, stock option grants, and a stock purchase plan. Every team member is an owner, building the “PLACE” they are proud to call “my company.”