Cloud Engineer, Specialist

Core Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and deploys services and features to support the Supergraph platform and meet business needs across Vanguard subdivisions.
• Identifies and implements opportunities for security remediation, resiliency hardening, and performance optimization.
• Quickly orients in unfamiliar repos and delivers changes with confidence.
• Provides advanced technical support for Supergraph production services running on AWS ECS.
• Troubleshoots issues across Java/Spring Boot and TypeScript/Node.js services in a federated GraphQL architecture.
• Traces issues from gateway through affected subgraph services, implements fixes, and proves the fix through testing.
• Contributes to technical standards and platform reliability practices.
• Tests and evaluates security patches and dependency updates.
• Validates performance through load testing (Locust, Fast4J) to optimize system performance and maximize uptime.
• Communicates risk and impact clearly to the team.
• Picks up work, traces it to affected services, and delivers solutions.
• Embraces AI-assisted development practices (Claude Code) and stays current on GraphQL federation and cloud-native patterns.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years related work experience.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.