DevOps Manager, Guild Education
$190-220k
AWS
Python
Bash
Prometheus
RDS
Datadog
DevOps
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Open for applications
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
B2BEnterpriseEducationTrainingLearning
Open for applications
$190-220k
AWS
Python
Bash
Prometheus
RDS
Datadog
DevOps
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
1001+ employees
B2BEnterpriseEducationTrainingLearning
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure roles, with at least 3+ 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 ideal candidate will possess expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), security, automation, networking, and cloud governance
- 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
- People Leadership & Team Growth
- 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
- AWS Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Ownership
- 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
- Automation, CI/CD & Observability Enablement
- 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
- Strategic Alignment & Cross-Team Collaboration
- 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
- Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- 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
- This role will remain open for a minimum of 3 days
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillsets 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.
The platform has secured some serious funding too. And 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
B Corporation
Top investors
-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
- Equity stake in the company providing ownership and a path to future earnings (when we succeed, we all benefit)
- free one-on-one coaching with a certified financial planner, a platform with budgeting tools, investment and equity management center and many more financial resources through Origin (we believe financial literacy not only supports you personally, but also has a lasting impact in creating positive generational wealth practices)
- Employee Assistance Fund for unforeseen crises, disasters, and/or personal hardships and you need a little extra financial support (funded by the company and fellow Guilders to create a community of support)
- legal support and resources to navigate complicated situations like estate planning name changes, immigration, and more
- 401(k) plan with a range of diverse investment options and personalized retirement advice
- 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
- Multiple paths to meet educational and professional goals
- Fertility benefits built into all of our medical plans
- A $10,000 family planning fund to take care of costs that aren’t covered by the medical plans like adoption, surrogacy, and egg freezing expenses
- 12-20 weeks of paid leave and a ramp-up program for Guilders to ease back into work after an extended time away
- An additional 3 weeks of paid leave if you are going through the adoption, surrogacy, or foster process to use prior to your child's arrival/placement to prepare and attend necessary meeting
- Inclusive guidance and support as you go through your family planning journey through Cleo
- Our on-site childcare center, The Beehive, offering care for children 3 months-6 years of age for employees and their friends and family members located in Colorado
- Personalized 1:1 support for anyone on the parenthood journey with access to a network of clinicians, experts, and specialists through Cleo
- 80 hours of low cost ($2/hr) emergency backup care for times employees unexpectedly find themselves without primary care for the ones they are responsible for
- Dedicated support in finding background-checked care providers to assist with child care, elder care, and chronic care needs through Helpr
- The ability to bring an actively nursing child and companion on work related trips
- Inclusive, affordable medical and behavioral healthcare when you need it
- Open PTO is available so Guilders can rest, recharge, and bring their best selves to work
- 10 Holidays including a collective week off over the 4th of July plus 5 floating holidays for cultural and religious events you celebrate
- Our leave policies are there to support employees and offer 12 weeks of fully paid medical, non-birthing parent, and caregiving leave as of day one of employment while birthing parents receive 18-20 weeks of fully paid leave
- Once Guilders reach 4.5 years of service, they are eligible for a 5-week fully paid sabbatical leave
- Up to 10 days of bereavement leave
- Up to 10 days of jury duty
- 8 sick days
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
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