Cloud Engineer – Tech Lead (FaaS Platform)

Core Responsibilities

• Drive design and delivery of event-driven, serverless solutions

• Guide reliability, scalability, and multi-region strategies

• Deliver complex work through others while remaining hands-on

• Mentor engineers and elevate technical capability across the team

• Partner with security, compliance, and engineering teams

• Improve developer experience through platform capabilities, tooling, and documentation

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight years related work experience.

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

• Deep AWS experience, including Lambda and event-driven architectures

• Experience with software development. Languages needed: Python, Node (nice to have), Java (nice to have)

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code and reusable platform patterns

• Experience building and operating distributed, highly available systems

• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, and enterprise compliance

• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production operations

• Knowledge of HTTP and Web patterns (nice to have: strong experience

Platform Engineering

• Experience building or operating internal platforms or developer tooling

• Strong focus on self-service capabilities and developer experience

• Experience supporting production systems with on-call accountability

Technical Leadership

• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives

• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding technical direction

• Strong collaboration across cross-functional stakeholders

• Ability to influence decisions beyond immediate team

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.

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.