Resiliency Engineering Team is Vanguard's Resiliency Engineering team focused on building enterprise platforms that improve the reliability, recoverability, and resilience of Vanguard's critical business services. Our portfolio includes Pulse, Vanguard's enterprise synthetic monitoring platform that enables teams to onboard in minutes and continuously validate critical user journeys before clients experience issues. Pulse helps engineering teams proactively identify service degradation, validate customer workflows, and improve operational confidence through automated monitoring and resiliency testing. We also own Enterprise Resiliency Insights, Vanguard's evolving enterprise resiliency intelligence platform. Our vision extends beyond dashboards and scorecards to create a single source of truth for resiliency posture that continuously validates controls, identifies risks, automates evidence collection, and provides actionable guidance to engineers, application owners, SREs, and leadership. As we continue to modernize our platforms, we are exploring AI-powered experiences, intelligent agents, automated recommendations, and next-generation user experiences that transform how resiliency is measured, understood, and improved across the enterprise.

What You'll Help Build

As an Engineer, you will design and develop enterprise-scale software solutions that help Vanguard move from reactive operations to predictive and autonomous resiliency.

You will contribute to:

• Expansion of Pulse synthetic monitoring capabilities and onboarding experiences.
• Enterprise resiliency intelligence services and automation platforms.
• Cloud-native APIs, services, integrations, and event-driven architectures.
• Automated resiliency validation, policy enforcement, and evidence collection.
• AI-powered agents and skills that solve recurring resiliency problems across subdivisions.
• Solutions that identify risks, recommend actions, and improve operational efficiency.
• Next-generation experiences for resiliency visibility and operational intelligence.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Core Responsibilities

• Provides advanced system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and platforms.
• Designs and develops cloud-native services, APIs, integrations, and automation workflows.
• Leads technical design discussions and contributes to platform architecture decisions.
• Develops scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Partners with SREs, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to solve enterprise resiliency challenges.
• Creates reusable frameworks and automation that improve resiliency outcomes.
• Develops AI-enabled capabilities, skills, or agents that reduce operational toil and improve decision making.
• Mentors engineers and participates in code reviews, testing, and production support.
• Contributes to observability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence initiatives.

We Heavily Rely On

• NodeJS / TypeScript
• Java
• Python
• Angular
• PostgreSQL
• AWS Lambda
• CloudFormation
• SQS / EventBridge
• GitHub Enterprise
• Grafana
• AI Development Frameworks and Agent Technologies

Qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building enterprise-scale software platforms.
• Strong experience with cloud-native development and distributed systems.
• Experience developing APIs, integrations, or event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with observability, resiliency, or platform engineering concepts.
• Experience developing automation and engineering productivity solutions.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is 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.

How We Work

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.