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Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Building and maintaining AWS infrastructure powering PBS KIDS websites, games, apps and OTT platforms, primarily with terraform and terragrunt

• Deploy Infrastructure as code (IAC) to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of platforms powering the delivery of digital content

• Support the Learning Analytics Platform (LAP) that PBS KIDS has built to evaluate the learning efficacy of our games with data science and analytics

• Participate in on-call rotation with other members of the operations and engineering teams (1 week / month, 11 AM - 11 PM M-F all weekend)

• Collaborate closely with PBS KIDS developers, advising on technical/architectural decisions relating to DevOps/AWS best practices

• Implement and manage continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems and methodologies (Github Actions, Docker Containers)

• Contribute to our library of Open Source (OSS) terraform modules (see to learn more)

• Other duties as assigned

Requirements for success:

• 7-10 years of experience with AWS or equivalent certifications

• Undergraduate degree from an accredited university / college

• Strong mentoring and technical leadership skills

• Ability to work collaboratively and self-manage schedule/priorities

• Knowledge and experience with CDNs and HTTP cache/proxy technologies (CloudFront and Nginx)

• Expertise managing serverless and/or FaaS systems (AWS Lambda)

• Experience in one or more SQL databases

• Passion for resolving reliability issues and identifying strategies to mitigate moving forward.

• A passion for empowering developer productivity

Preferred Technical Skills:

• IaC tools like Terraform/Terragrunt/OpenTofu

• CI/CD tools like Github Actions

• Container Technologies like Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS), or Kubernetes

• Monitoring tools like CloudWatch and PagerDuty

• Git Github

• Experience supporting apps written in PHP, Javascript, python, rust, golang

• Additional AWS services: DynamoDB, Redis, Athena

The position is funded by a Ready To Learn (RTL) grant from the U.S. Department of Education to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS. The CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative focuses on the development, dissemination, and evaluation of content across media and platforms for children ages 2-8 designed to improve learning outcomes and increase school readiness.

PBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer in accordance with the EEOC and the Commonwealth of Virginia.