DevOps Manager

Summary

Join Guild's Engineering team as a Manager, DevOps, leading and growing a high-performing team. You will oversee cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD pipelines on AWS. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in IaC, security, and cloud governance. Collaborate with engineering, security, and product leaders to align DevOps initiatives with business goals. This role requires 5+ years of DevOps experience, including 2+ years in a leadership position, and deep AWS expertise. Guild offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

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

Responsibilities

• 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

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