• Define and evolve reusable cloud platform patterns for AWS infrastructure, production Kubernetes, account governance, networking, identity, security, and operational readiness.
• Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure-as-code modules, templates, and reference architectures using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable tools.
• Establish practical platform standards that balance developer autonomy with security, reliability, compliance, and cost requirements.
• Partner with engineering leaders and technical teams to assess platform needs, make architecture tradeoffs, and guide adoption of shared capabilities.

• Implement and maintain governance controls for security, tagging, resource lifecycle, account configuration, and compliance across AWS environments.
• Build policy-as-code and automated remediation capabilities using Cloud Custodian, AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies, or equivalent technologies.
• Create detection, reporting, and remediation workflows for configuration drift, cloud risk, orphaned resources, and cost issues.
• Work with Security, Finance, and Engineering to translate governance requirements into automated, developer-friendly controls.

• Build and improve self-service platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to provision and operate infrastructure without unnecessary manual intervention.
• Run and extend internal developer portal capabilities such as Backstage, including service catalogs, plugins, onboarding workflows, and platform documentation.
• Integrate infrastructure-as-code, policy checks, security validation, and operational readiness into delivery workflows.
• Develop reusable tooling, automation, and diagnostics that reduce developer friction and improve platform adoption.

• Define and maintain governance for AWS and production Kubernetes/EKS environments, including access, security, networking, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Support reliable containerized workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and related cloud-native technologies.
• Drive cost optimization through rightsizing, utilization analysis, reserved capacity, Savings Plans, spot usage, autoscaling, and workload lifecycle management.
• Build cost controls, dashboards, alerts, and reporting that help teams understand resource consumption and make cost-conscious architecture decisions.
• Improve observability and contribute to incident response, post-incident reviews, runbooks, and reliability improvements for shared platform capabilities.

• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams through architecture reviews, design guidance, documentation, and hands-on delivery.
• Mentor engineers in infrastructure automation, cloud governance, platform engineering, and operational best practices.
• Build alignment across Engineering, Security, Finance, and other business partners.
• Maintain an active coding footprint in Python, Go, Java, Bash, or similar languages used to build platform automation and internal tooling.

• 8+ years of experience in cloud platform, DevOps, infrastructure, SRE, or software engineering roles with significant infrastructure ownership.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, provisioning, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure in production environments.
• 3+ years of experience managing production-grade Kubernetes or Amazon EKS environments.
• Demonstrated experience building reusable platform capabilities, cloud governance systems, internal tooling, or self-service infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams.
• Experience influencing technical standards and architecture across team boundaries without relying on formal management authority.

• Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, Fargate, Route 53, AWS Organizations, and related cloud services.
• Kubernetes and containers: Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Helm, cluster governance, workload security, networking, and lifecycle management.
• IaC and automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Terragrunt, Ansible, Python, Go, Java, or Bash.
• CI/CD and GitOps: ArgoCD, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or comparable delivery platforms.
• Governance and security: Cloud Custodian, AWS Service Control Policies, policy-as-code, IAM, RBAC, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
• Developer platforms: Backstage, service catalogs, internal developer portals, self-service infrastructure, platform APIs, or paved-path design.
• Observability and operations: Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, incident response, and post-incident analysis.

• Direct experience with Cloud Custodian, Backstage, AWS Service Control Policies, or FinOps practices.
• Experience with Istio or another service mesh, including secure service-to-service communication and traffic management.
• Experience with multi-account, multi-region, hybrid-cloud, or regulated environments.
• Experience building automated remediation, policy enforcement, or cloud cost-management systems.
• Certifications such as CKA, CKS, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.

Professional Qualities

• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Collaborative approach to working across engineering, security, finance, product, and business teams.
• Self-motivated and comfortable solving ambiguous problems in a growing platform organization.
• Data-driven decision-making with empathy for developer experience.
• Practical judgment about when to standardize, when to provide flexibility, and how to drive adoption of shared platform capabilities.
• RealOwnership mindset with a focus on durable systems, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement.

How We Reward You

Realtor.com® is committed to investing in the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degree and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location