Director of DevOps

Director of DevOps

Guideline is looking for a Director of DevOps to join our expanding engineering team. As the Frontline Manager on an agile team, you will build upon the infrastructure powering our growing line of products that bring the possibility of a safe retirement to more people. You will work remotely.

What You Will Work On

• Day to day management of technology infrastructure, devops personnel, and enforcement of basic infrastructure security standards.


• Identify, evaluate, and implement tools and technologies to drive automation and optimization of version control, configuration management and CI/CD processes


• Define and implement processes to track, update, and modify multiple dev/test environments, including the ability to create new ones quickly or remove unused ones


• Drive adoption of standardized SCM and CI/CD processes and identify, implement, and track key metrics for visibility


• Recruit, develop, and retain talent to build the next gen DevOps team and ensure the staff has the skills and capabilities to meet development needs


• Collaborate with development teams to understand requirements, propose changes, and gain alignment to drive continuous improvement and automation into the SCM and CI/CD processes


• Engage in on-call participation to assist the GCP service deployment pipeline


• Create infrastructure and products that promote and enforce high reliability


• Prepare for and carry out extensive zero-downtime migrations


• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity in the event of outages or disasters.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, and configuration management


• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, tools and infrastructures for applications deployed On Prem and in the Cloud


• 5+ years of experience with DevOps and configuration management spanning web, mobile and cloud domains


• 5+ years of experience managing complex development, test, integration, and production environments with different versions, building new environments, and providing support for existing ones


• Must have people management experience


• Experience scripting to automate repetitive processes including creating build scripts using tools like Ant, Gradle, Maven, etc.


• Working knowledge and experience with container builds using Docker, Kubernetes, and helm charts


• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible


• Cloud experience, specifically working with GCP (preferred) or AWS


• Proven experience implementing and managing DevOps and SRE practices in large-scale environments.

More About Guideline

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Offer Package

The expected Salary Range for this position is $182,500 - $218,500 annually. Compensation is determined by numerous factors such as your qualifications, experience, and work location.

Additional benefits:

• Flexible vacation policy


• Company equity


• 401(k) with matching contributions


• 100% paid employee insurance coverage


• Annual learning and development stipend


• Parental leave


• Sabbatical after 5 years of employment

Guideline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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