Full-Time
Manager – Devops
Posted on 2/20/2025
Guild Education
1,001-5,000 employees
Provides education benefits for employees
Compensation Overview
$194.4k - $211.2kAnnually
Senior, Expert
Remote in USA
Candidates must be able to live and work full-time in one 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.
You match the following Guild Education's candidate preferences
Employers are more likely to interview you if you match these preferences:
- 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.
- 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.
Guild Education provides education benefits to large employers, helping them invest in their employees' education and skills development. The company partners with employers to offer programs like tuition reimbursement, access to online courses, and degree programs from accredited institutions. This approach aims to improve employee satisfaction, reduce turnover, and attract top talent. Guild Education generates revenue through fees from employers for managing education programs and commissions from educational institutions for student enrollments. In a job market that requires continuous learning, Guild's services help companies prepare their workforce for future challenges while promoting diversity and inclusion. The goal is to transform education into a strategic investment that enhances talent acquisition, retention, and overall company morale.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Series F
Total Funding
$626M
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
Founded
2015
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Growing demand for upskilling programs boosts Guild's relevance in workforce development.
- Partnerships with companies like MOD Pizza expand Guild's reach and impact.
- Recent $264 million funding supports aggressive expansion and product development.
What critics are saying
- Increased competition from providers like EdAssist may impact Guild's market share.
- Economic downturns could reduce corporate spending on education benefits, affecting revenue.
- Data privacy concerns with AI integration could lead to regulatory challenges.
What makes Guild Education unique
- Guild Education partners with large employers to offer education as an employee benefit.
- Their tech-enabled student advising model supports working adults from start to finish.
- Guild's platform integrates AI insights to empower HR leaders in talent transformation.
Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?
Benefits
Be an owner - Every employee is granted equity in Guild with a 4-year vesting schedule as well as a 401(k).
Prioritize your time - We offer generous parental leave, PTO, and onsite daycare for Denver-based employees
Have a learner's mindset - Guild offers student loan reimbursement, 100% tuition assistance for your first bachelor’s degree, and $10K/year toward additional education.
Take care of yourself - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans because we care about the health and well-being of all Guild employees.
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -1%1 year growth
↑ 0%2 year growth
↑ 1%Guild Talent Advantage is a first-of-its-kind product suite that pairs education, skilling, and academy experiences with AI insights to empower HR leaders to address a range of urgent talent transformation priorities.
Salt Security, the API security company, is working with Guild Education, the leader in opportunity creation for America’s workforce, to implement the Salt Security API Protection Platform to secure its growing application programming interface (API) ecosystem.
INDIANAPOLIS - Ivy Tech Community College is partnering with career opportunity platform Guild to provide employers with additional options for personal and professional growth.
Learning and c areer opportunity company Guild Education welcomed Dean Carter as its new chief people officer (CPO).
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, MOD Pizza, the purpose-led, people-first brand, announced the significant expansion of its Journey Program to include a robust list of company-paid educational curriculums for its MOD Squad members. Through a new partnership with Guild, MOD’s 10,000+ Squad members in company-owned stores across the U.S. can now unlock life-changing opportunities for both personal and professional advancement. The expanded program will cover the cost of full tuition, plus all books and fees, providing Squad members the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree, professional certificates, or enroll in English language learning – all through Guild’s Learning Marketplace and Career Opportunity Platform. “This is an important investment for MOD, and one that can help remove the barriers to education and career mobility that exist for so many,” said Ally Svenson, MOD’s co-founder and protector of the purpose. “The MOD Journey Program is designed to support and serve the people of MOD and ensure we are providing opportunities that will positively impact their lives. There’s nothing more important to us than knowing our Squads can pursue their personal and professional dreams as part of their MOD journey!”