Cloud Engineer, Observability Platforms
About the role
Join Vanguard's Observability Engineering team and help build the next generation of enterprise observability platforms. You'll design, engineer, and enhance cloud-native solutions across logs, metrics, traces, and event management, enabling teams to deliver reliable and scalable applications. This role combines cloud engineering, software development, automation, and platform engineering to improve developer experience, drive operational excellence, and expand self-service capabilities across the organization. You'll collaborate with application teams, platform partners, and technology vendors to advance our observability ecosystem. As part of our Observability 2.0 strategy, you'll help shape the future of intelligent operations by integrating AI-powered capabilities, MCP-enabled workflows, AIOps automation, and modern observability platforms that accelerate troubleshooting, improve reliability, and reduce operational complexity.
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.
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.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and support cloud-based observability platforms, including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing systems
- Develop and enhance cloud-native applications using AWS services, including serverless technologies such as Lambda
- Implement and manage containerized workloads using Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes