Cloud Engineer, Specialist

In This Role, You Will

• Provide junior level IT services and direction for critical platform operational projects.
• Provides technical expertise and completes medium-to-complex development, design, and implementation, and maintenance activities.
• Ensure the viability of IT deliverables.
• Approver on team PRs.
• Conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
• Identify potential solutions and provide insights on technical solutions proposed by team members.
• Elevate complex technical issues to tech leads, architects, and IT experts.
• Resolve technical problems discovered by internal clients.
• Respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner.
• Research issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Communicate with key stakeholders on project issues and implications.
• Evaluate the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas.
• Maintain a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards.
• Mentor IT staff and identify training needs.
• Review and collaborate on documentation and diagrams created by IT team members.
• Write documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Identify opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• Participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues.
• What it takes: Minimum of 3+ years related work experience, with at least 1 year of platform operation or development experience.
• Familiarity with AWS core concepts and services.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Strong core development skills and problem-solving skills.
• Disposition for proactive solutioning with a preference for automation.
• Experience with modern software practices and automation.
• Experience with a scripting language, preferably Python/Go.
• Ability to troubleshoot effectively throughout the development lifecycle.
• Ability to self-train on emerging technologies and share what you learn with others.
• Eye on reducing Developer Cognitive Load.
• Passion for Cloud Native Observability and Resiliency Engineering.
• Experience building applications and services using AWS or Kubernetes.
• Collaborative - Learn & Teach mindset.
• Beneficial but not required skills: CKA Certification.
• Monitoring and alerting production workloads Managing AWS infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform AWS Technical Certifications Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
• About Vanguard At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
• To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients.
• To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives.
• To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team.
• From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
• 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.