Direct Indexing Cloud Platform Infrastructure & Dev Ops Engineer

Vanguard Personalized Indexing (VPI) is a rapidly growing business within Financial Advisor Services. We enable financial advisors to deliver tax‑efficient, customized direct indexing portfolios  platform manages thousands of investor accounts and evaluates portfolios daily to support portfolio construction, optimization, tax‑loss harvesting, trading, and investment research workflows. VPI operates at the intersection of investment management, cloud‑native engineering, and advanced analytics. We are modernizing our technology platform through a multi‑year transformation that includes AWS migration, cloud‑native architecture adoption, platform scalability improvements, enhanced resiliency, and expansion of our investment technology capabilities.

We are seeking an experienced Platform & Infrastructure, Dev Ops Engineer to enable the engineering and operational foundations that power the VPI platform. This individual will be responsible for the delivery of cloud infrastructure, platform operations, Dev Ops, security engineering enablement, and enterprise integration capabilities while serving as a key technical lead across the team.

This role is responsible for designing, building, securing, and operating VPI's cloud platform and engineering infrastructure. The individual will partner closely with application, data, product, and architecture teams to enable highly reliable and scalable investment systems.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across AWS, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, Dev Ops practices, security enablement, and enterprise systems integration. This role combines hands‑on technical execution with architectural leadership and operational ownership.

• Design, build, and operate cloud‑native infrastructure supporting VPI's investment platform.
• Lead AWS platform architecture, modernization, and migration initiatives.
• Design scalable, highly available, and secure infrastructure patterns across development, test, and production environments.
• Manage Kubernetes and container platforms supporting distributed workloads.
• Drive infrastructure standardization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Continuously improve platform observability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness.

• Establish and evolve CI/CD pipelines and engineering automation practices.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code adoption using modern provisioning and configuration‑management frameworks.
• Automate deployment, environment management, compliance validation, and operational processes.
• Improve engineering productivity through tooling, platform services, and self‑service capabilities.
• Define and implement operational best practices for cloud‑native application delivery.

• Partner with Enterprise Security and application teams to design secure platform architectures.
• Enable implementation of security controls, vulnerability remediation, identity management, encryption, network segmentation, and cloud governance frameworks.
• Support regulatory, audit, risk, and compliance initiatives.
• Drive proactive remediation of security findings and operational risks.
• Establish secure‑by‑default platform patterns and guardrails.

• Design and support integrations with Vanguard enterprise platforms and external vendors.
• Build secure and scalable connectivity patterns across cloud and on‑premises environments.
• Enable data exchange, APIs, messaging, file transfer, and service integrations.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to evaluate emerging technology solutions and integration opportunities.