DevOps Manager, Guild Education
$194.4-211.2k
+ Stock Options
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$194.4-211.2k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will possess expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), security, automation, networking, and cloud governance
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure roles, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or management position
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud services, including IAM, VPC networking, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, and security best practices
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and automation tooling
- Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, including experience with GitHub Actions or similar deployment automation tools
- Experience managing multi-account AWS cloud environments, including networking, security controls, IAM governance, and cost optimization
- Proficiency in observability and monitoring solutions (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) to drive system reliability and operational excellence
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or another high-level language to develop internal DevOps tooling
- Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting clear goals, and fostering a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative DevOps culture
- Experience working in an Agile, iterative development environment, ensuring infrastructure and automation solutions are aligned with engineering needs and business priorities
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional collaboration, working with engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to drive platform-wide improvements
What the job involves
- Guild is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps team. This role involves overseeing our cloud infrastructure, automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services
- The Engineering Manager will collaborate with engineering, security, and product leaders to ensure DevOps initiatives align with business goals and advance Guild’s cloud platform
- Develop, mentor, and grow a high-performing DevOps team, fostering technical culture and career progression
- Build redundancy and skill diversity within the team to ensure knowledge sharing
- Champion and set performance expectations, guiding engineers in accountability, ownership, and execution
- Lead through ambiguity and change, maintaining focus on long-term goals
- Oversee and ensure Guild’s cloud infrastructure is scalable, cost-efficient, and secure
- Own and optimize Guild’s multi-account AWS cloud strategy for secure, scalable, and efficient networking and service connectivity
- Drive IaC best practices to align cloud resources with security and compliance
- Ensure system reliability, security, and performance, while proactively addressing operational risks and technical debt
- Ensure fast, secure, and scalable build and deployment pipelines for all engineering teams
- Improve DevOps automation tooling to enable efficient service deployment, monitoring, and management
- Enhance system observability across multi-account AWS environments
- Optimize workflows and deployment strategies to reduce manual intervention and ensure seamless software delivery
- Partner with Product, Security, and Engineering Leadership to align DevOps initiatives with business goals
- Ensure DevOps services adoption and drive best practices for infrastructure automation
- Align infrastructure investments with business priorities
- Support compliance, security, and cloud governance efforts
- Lead postmortems, incident response, and a culture of continuous improvement
- Own and evolve team processes, ensuring clear priorities and accountability
- Monitor cloud costs and drive FinOps best practices to ensure cost-efficiency
Application process
- We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company values
- Nurture a learner’s mindset
- Create belonging
- Be teammates
- Build shared success
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Articles
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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