At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. All salaries ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors.

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If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board.

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At Guild, we uphold our Core Values in everything we do. Our team emphasizes our Core Values in the following ways:

Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company

Manager, DevOps

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.

Role Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

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.

We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a base salary range of $194,400 - $211,200, as well as company stock options.

At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.

Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.

Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following 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

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