Guild Education
Senior DevOps Engineer
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $150K - $189K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ September 4th, 2025
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Edtech.com's Summary
Guild is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer. This role involves leading and optimizing Guild's cloud infrastructure and automation frameworks while collaborating with engineering teams to improve DevOps practices. The engineer will manage AWS environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and security frameworks to enhance operational reliability and deployment workflows.
Highlights
- Own and maintain core AWS infrastructure ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Enhance monitoring, observability, and alerting systems for engineering squads.
- Lead adoption of infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
- Manage cloud security, IAM, secrets, and governance across AWS accounts.
- Architect and optimize cross-account AWS operations including networking and automation.
- Develop and manage centralized DevOps tooling like CI/CD pipelines and deployment frameworks.
- Required proficiencies include DevOps experience with agile methods, AWS, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, scripting (Bash, Python), and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCI).
- Preferred experience includes AI Operations, AWS certification, AWS Lambda, strong networking and security fundamentals, and experience with Postgresql and Python or JavaScript development teams.
- Compensation ranges from $150,000 to $188,600 plus stock options.
- Guild partners with major employers such as Chipotle, Target, and JPMorgan Chase to develop workforce talent.
Senior DevOps Engineer Full Description
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. We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors.
If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board.
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Guild is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will lead and optimize Guild’s centralized cloud infrastructure, automation frameworks, and operational reliability. You will be responsible for both collaborating with engineering squads to improve DevOps adoption and owning the core infrastructure and operational platforms that power Guild’s AWS environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and security frameworks. This role requires deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation), automation, and security, as well as a strong ability to partner with development teams to enhance deployment workflows and reduce operational friction.
Key responsibilities
- Own and maintain Guild’s core AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across environments.
- Enhance monitoring, observability, and alerting systems, ensuring engineering squads have deep insights into system health.
- Lead the adoption of infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation) to standardize cloud resource management across teams.
- Improve cloud security and compliance, managing IAM, secrets, and governance frameworks across AWS accounts.
- Architect and optimize cross-account AWS operations, ensuring seamless connectivity, networking, and automation across environments.
- Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on DevOps and cloud infrastructure, providing guidance and best practices to engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers and advocate for DevOps culture, driving automation, reliability, and performance improvements across the organization.
- Develop and manage centralized DevOps tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment frameworks.
- AI Ops Experience
- Amazon AWS Certified.
- Familiarity with AWS lambda and container-based systems.
- Strong networking and security fundamentals.
- Experience working with Javascript, or Python development teams.
- Experience with datastores like Postgresql.
- A passion for improving developer productivity through automation and process improvement.
- Demonstrated curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies.
- Willingness to embrace change and work within a fast-paced environment.
- Passion for higher education and our mission.
- Well-versed with information security tools and best practices. Bonus points if you have operated in an environment that has implemented or maintained compliance with standards such as SOC II.
Required Proficiencies
- Experience applying DevOps practices in a professional setting, using agile methods
- Familiarity with cloud-based environments such as AWS
- Excellent cross-team communication skills
- Knowledge of containers and orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Expertise with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform
- Basic scripting ability with Bash or other languages such as Python or Ruby
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools such as Github Actions or CircleCI
- Expertise in defining and building common, reusable practices across multiple teams -- logging, CI/CD, alerting and monitoring, and security
Preferred Experience
- AI Operations experience
- Amazon AWS Certified
- Familiarity with AWS lambda and container-based systems
- Strong networking and security fundamentals
- Experience working with Javascript, or Python development teams
- Experience with datastores like Postgresql
- A passion for improving developer productivity through automation and process improvement
- Demonstrated curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies
- Willingness to embrace change and work within a fast-paced environment
- Passion for higher education and our mission
- Well-versed with information security tools and best practices. Bonus points if you have operated in an environment that has implemented or maintained compliance with standards such as SOC II
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 $150,000 - $188,600 and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.
Guild is America’s leading talent development company, partnering with the country’s most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, 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 helping companies stay agile. By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms overlooked talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit https://www.guild.com.
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
- 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; 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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