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Vanguard Senior Cloud Engineer in Malvern, Pennsylvania
Cloud Engineering Team within Vanguard's IIG division has an amazing opportunity to further your expertise and demonstrate technical leadership. This resource will partner to lead, design, and implement solutions that will have divisional impact, as the primary technician to lead IIG's Cloud engineering transformation initiatives. This is a great opportunity to join our growing team and work with a variety of cloud native AWS services to develop full stack solutions, that will service multi-functional teams across IIGT.
This is a unique opportunity to make impact with IIG Cloud Practice. You will partner closely with members of the IIG leadership team, IIG Architecture, AWS Cloud Platform teams and product development teams to find efficient ways to scale and lower cloud costs. This role will help build applications that generate efficiencies within our internal AWS cloud technology stack and focus on driving significant impact for IIG Business. And you won’t be alone - you’ll be surrounded by colleagues who will push you to think differently, encourage you to make an impact, and applaud you for the results you achieve.
In this role, you will:
Plan and implement new technologies and major releases for the most critical enterprise-wide IT cloud platform projects. Design, implement, and deploy cloud computing systems to support and meet business needs. Identify, recommend, and implement opportunities for improvement and performance issue solutions.
Provide expert level technical support and ensure reliable operation of cloud production. Diagnose and solve the most complex issues for cloud computing systems on multiple platforms. Maintains comprehensive technical knowledge of software and infrastructure platforms.
Develop technical standards. Test and evaluate IT vendor products. Review configuration parameters to optimize system performance and enhance operation uptime
Elevate code into the development, test, and production environments on schedule. Provide follow up production support. Submit change control requests and documents.
Learn and understand client area business functions and requirements. Figure out appropriate technical tool to address the client's business needs.
Train and mentor more junior staff on processes and technologies. Troubleshoot and resolve the most complex issues elevated from staff. Provides guidance and consultation as required. Updates, writes, and maintains documentation for the department.
Administer system activities. Write the technical portion of assigned deliverables. Perform systems analysis, including system requirements analysis and definition, and logical design.
Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
What it takes:
Welcome challenges with enthusiasm, high-energy, and urgency
Work with architects and other IT and business groups to identify technical and functional needs of applications based on priority
Design and build cost-efficient cloud-native solutions for cross-functional, multi-platform internal and client facing applications
Ability to decipher complex, ambiguous customer needs and translate into optimal feature delivery
Thinks in terms of architecture as well as code. Able to develop and evaluate solutions for strengths and weaknesses (e.g., complexity, quality, scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc.) which are key for an enterprise engineer
Experience working with AWS technologies ECS, Lamda, EC2, Docker, Fargate, Step functions, CloudWatch, etc.
Experience with Security stacks such as IAM, Okta OIDC, Auth0, Secrets Manager, etc.
Understands software engineering standard processes (e.g. CI\CD automated pipelines, Operational Excellence, Information Security IAM)
Experience with application integration via APIs/REST, API Gateways, KONG.
Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers
Desire to quickly grow your expertise and learn.
Minimum of five years related work experience.
Special Factor(s)
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.
For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.
We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.
Inclusion Statement
Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”
We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.
When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.
Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Vanguard, one of the world's largest investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.
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