Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps Lead

Vanguard; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Platform & Infrastructure, DevOps Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate a cloud-native infrastructure for the Vanguard Personalized Indexing (VPI) platform. You will partner with application, data, product, and architecture teams to enable reliable, scalable investment systems and enterprise integration.

The role blends hands-on execution with architectural leadership, offering opportunities to influence modernization roadmaps and drive standardization

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 VPI 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 for 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 using modern provisioning and config-management frameworks.
• Automate deployment, environment management, compliance validation, and operational processes.
• Improve engineering productivity through tooling and self-service capabilities.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

IaC

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Security

Troubleshooting

Leadership

Communication

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 a cloud-native infrastructure for the Vanguard Personalized Indexing (VPI) platform. You will partner with application, data, product, and architecture teams to enable reliable, scalable investment systems and enterprise integration.

The role blends hands-on execution with architectural leadership, offering opportunities to influence modernization roadmaps and drive standardization