Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & DevOps

Vanguard; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Platform & Infrastructure, DevOps Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate the cloud platform powering VPI. You will partner with application, data, product, and architecture teams to enable reliable, scalable investment systems.

The role combines hands-on execution with architectural leadership, owning platform operations, security enablement, and enterprise integrations across cloud-native infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or related fields.
• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms in production environments.
• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks.
• Experience designing secure, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong Linux, networking, and systems engineering background.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems with high availability requirements.
• Strong understanding of information security, cloud security, and risk management principles.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native infrastructure supporting the investment platform.
• Lead AWS platform architecture, modernization, and migration initiatives.
• Design scalable, highly available, and secure infrastructure patterns across environments.
• Manage Kubernetes and container platforms supporting distributed workloads.
• Drive infrastructure standardization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Continuously improve platform observability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness.
• Establish and evolve CI/CD pipelines and engineering automation practices.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code adoption and automation frameworks.
• Automate deployment, environment management, compliance validation, and operational processes.
• Improve engineering productivity through tooling and self-service capabilities.
• Define and implement operational best practices for cloud-native delivery.
• Partner with Enterprise Security for secure platform architectures and controls.
• Integrate with enterprise systems and external vendors.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Security

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Platform & Infrastructure, DevOps Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate the cloud platform powering VPI. You will partner with application, data, product, and architecture teams to enable reliable, scalable investment systems.

The role combines hands-on execution with architectural leadership, owning platform operations, security enablement, and enterprise integrations across cloud-native infrastructure.