Cloud Platform Lead - Security & DevSecOps (AWS)

Vanguard; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve the security-scanning orchestration platform across applications, surface findings as control checks, and enforce security standards through GitHub's policy engine.

You will lead the design and development of cloud-native services on AWS (IAM, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS, S3, CloudFormation), build APIs and CI/CD capabilities, and mentor engineers while championing AI-assisted development and secure practices across the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the security-scanning platform and governance checks.
• Lead design, development, and deployment of cloud-native services on AWS.
• Develop APIs, event-driven integrations, and automation for scalable security testing.
• Maintain platform reliability with automation and observability as adoption grows.
• Mentor engineers and promote secure development practices across teams.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps and security leaders to align technical direction.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Mentoring engineers

Observability & reliability

Cross-team collaboration

AI-assisted development awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Java

Node.js

TypeScript

CI/CD

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve the security-scanning orchestration platform across applications, surface findings as control checks, and enforce security standards through GitHub's policy engine.

You will lead the design and development of cloud-native services on AWS (IAM, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS, S3, CloudFormation), build APIs and CI/CD capabilities, and mentor engineers while championing AI-assisted development and secure practices across the