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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.

Position Overview

We're seeking a Infrastructure Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our internal developer platform. You'll focus on making infrastructure self-service and invisible - abstracting away AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform through tools and workflows that empower developers to deliver software without needing to become cloud experts.

You'll be our subject matter expert on AWS EKS and infrastructure automation, working across engineering teams to define platform standards, build extensible tooling, and own the developer experience from infrastructure request to production deployment.

This is a high-impact, senior role for a hands-on engineer who thinks strategically, builds with empathy, and drives platform initiatives across the company.

Our developers should spend their time shipping features - not wrestling with YAML, Terraform, or AWS IAM. As a Infrastructure Platform Engineer, you'll lead the effort to make infrastructure easy, scalable, and safe for every engineering team, unlocking productivity and accelerating product delivery.

Interested in building the platform that powers everything else? Let's talk.
Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead Developer Platform Strategy: Define and drive the vision for internal infrastructure platforms that abstract away complexity and maximize developer velocity.
• Own Self-Service Infrastructure: Architect and implement tools, APIs, and UI/CLI workflows that allow developers to provision and manage infrastructure without needing to write Terraform or YAML.
• Scale EKS Platforms: Own the architecture and lifecycle of secure, multi-tenant AWS EKS clusters optimized for internal platform use, including provisioning, policy, networking, and cost control.
• Codify Best Practices: Design reusable infrastructure blueprints and opinionated defaults that encode security, scalability, and compliance into the platform.
• Build Developer Tooling: Develop platform SDKs, CLIs, and service templates that make infrastructure consumption intuitive and consistent across teams.
• Cross-Team Leadership: Partner with application teams, security, and SREs to align platform capabilities with engineering needs and business priorities.
• Mentor & Uplevel the Org: Act as a technical mentor across engineering, influencing architectural decisions, platform usage, and DevEx best practices.
• Measure & Iterate: Instrument the platform with metrics, collect feedback, and continuously improve adoption, performance, and usability.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE/DevOps, or platform engineering roles, with at least 2 years in a senior or technical ownership position driving cross-team initiatives or high-impact platform projects.
• Deep expertise in AWS, particularly EKS, IAM, networking, and container- services.
• Proven experience designing and operating internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure solutions.
• Strong programming skills in Python or Go - comfortable building production-grade services, tools, and APIs.
• Practical understanding of infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows - especially Terraform and Helm - even if the goal is to abstract them.
• Experience with platform frameworks like Backstage, Port, or building custom developer portals.
• Strong systems thinking and architectural skills - capable of balancing long-term vision with short-term needs.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing stakeholders, and aligning platform initiatives with business and engineering priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a product-minded approach to infrastructure.

Bonus Points:

• Experience implementing policy engines (e.g., OPA, Kyverno) or platform guardrails.
• Background in SRE or security engineering with platform responsibility.
• Track record of developer enablement: reducing friction, improving onboarding, and evangelizing platform adoption.
• Familiarity with multi-account AWS orgs and cost-aware design patterns.

Why Teaching Strategies

At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!

Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:

• Competitive compensation package
• Employee Equity Appreciation Program
• Health and wellness insurance benefits
• 401k with employer match
• Flexible work environment
• Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
• Best in class technology equipment for every employee
• Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Stadium and Audi Field

Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive.

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