ECS Platform Junior Engineer

Impact

As a cloud engineer, you will get to work with a variety of cloud native AWS services to develop full stack solutions, that will service global cross functional teams across the Vanguard enterprise. The tech stack requires an engineer very familiar with Python which is primarily used as the development language, followed by Node Js and Java. Expertise developing Cloud Formation templates (AWS) is a must, along with familiarity in Splunk and Cloud Watch logs and metrics.

You must be able to prove you are a self‑motivated learner, building a resilient platform and balancing operational and client support.

• Work with architects and other IT and business groups to identify technical and functional needs of applications based on priority
• Design and build solutions for cross-functional, multi-platform internal and client facing applications
• Ability to decipher complex, ambiguous customer needs and translate into optimal feature delivery
• Writing great quality code with a drive for automated testing and validation
• Think in terms of architecture as well as code. Able to develop and evaluate solutions for strengths and weaknesses (e.g., complexity, quality, scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc.) which are key for an enterprise engineer
• Experience working with AWS technologies ECS, Docker, Fargate, EC2, Step Functions, Cloud Watch, etc.
• Experience with Security stacks such as IAM, Okta OIDC, Auth0, Secrets Manager, etc.
• Understands software engineering best practices (e.g. CI/CD automated pipelines, Operational Excellence, Information Security IAM)
• Experience with deployments and dev ops
• Experience with application integration via APIs/REST, API Gateways (Kong, CA API Gateway, etc.)
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers on best practices

• Experience in AWS cloud development:
  Python/Cloud Formation/NodeJS/Java/ AWS SDK
• Experience or exposure in build and deploy technologies:
  Git Hub;
  IaC pipeline and tools; OTel, Honeycomb, and observability tools;
  Crowdstrike, Wiz, and other security scanning tools; and test frameworks
• Exposure to Agile development concepts

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.