Manager, DevOps

To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. You can read about our culture principles here. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of Guild’s people managers — helping you know what to expect from your experience here. If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board. ---- 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 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. We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $190,000 - $220,000, and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity. Posting Date: June 23, 2026 *This role will remain open for a minimum of 3 days. Guild partners with the country’s most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, Spectrum, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent, enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and companies to stay agile. By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms all talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit Guild is a female-founded, certified B Corp. The company has been recognized by Fortune’s Change the World list (2021, 2025), the Forbes Cloud 100 (2020–2025), Great Place to Work (2022–2025), CNBC’s Disruptor 50 (2021–2024), TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies (2022), Inc.’s Best-Led Companies (2021), Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas (2020), and B Lab’s Best for the World (2019), 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 Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO) Access to a 401k to help save for the future Vacation policy 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; 2-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 Our home and headquarters in Denver, but some of our roles allow for remote work, allowing us to reach the best talent across the US. Please refer to the job location referenced below the job posting title to determine location. 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. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

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