Cloud Engineer, Specialist

About the FaaS Platform Team

The FaaS (Functions as a Service) Platform team builds and operates Vanguard’s enterprise serverless computing platform, enabling teams to deploy event-driven applications with managed infrastructure, security, and integrations.

Built on AWS Lambda, the platform provides standardized, self-service capabilities that abstract cloud complexity and accelerate delivery across the enterprise. The team focuses on scalability, reliability, security, and improving developer experience through reusable infrastructure and tooling.

Role Overview

You will contribute to the design, development, and support of the FaaS platform. You will work on moderately to highly complex team assignments, partnering with engineers to deliver platform capabilities and improve operational excellence.

You are a strong individual contributor focused on building technical proficiency, collaborating across teams, and aligning your work to platform and department goals.

This role is ideal for engineers who are growing their cloud and platform engineering skills and want to deepen their experience in serverless architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of event-driven, serverless solutions on AWS Lambda
• Support platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence through coding, testing, and monitoring
• Build and enhance reusable infrastructure, tooling, and platform capabilities
• Troubleshoot issues and resolve problems using established practices and team guidance
• Collaborate with engineers, product partners, and stakeholders across the department
• Participate in on-call rotation and support production systems
• Contribute to documentation and continuously improve developer experience
• Actively engage in team discussions, share ideas, and provide feedback

Required Skills and Experience

• Technical Foundation:
• Foundational knowledge of AWS, with exposure to Lambda or cloud-based development
• Experience in software development, Python required; Node or Java nice to have
• Basic understanding of APIs, HTTP patterns, and event-driven concepts
• Familiarity with version control, CI/CD pipelines, and testing practices
• Exposure to infrastructure as code, such as CloudFormation
• Platform Engineering Mindset:
• Interest in building internal platforms or shared services
• Willingness to learn about developer experience, self-service tooling, and reusable patterns
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and production support practices
• Collaboration and Growth:
• Strong team player who contributes to team goals and supports peers
• Comfortable sharing ideas and asking questions in team settings
• Demonstrates accountability for assigned work and commitments
• Actively seeks feedback and applies it to improve

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.

Vanguard's Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity

Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination, prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy, Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status. In addition, Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.