CMDB Operations and Infrastructure Engineer

Vanguard Group, Inc.

$90K — $120K *
Wayne, PA 19087In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of five years related work experience.
  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
  • Foundational experience in IT infrastructure or cloud platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with ServiceNow and CMDB principles.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
  • Experience integrating enterprise tools across infrastructure and security domains.
  • Strong troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Provide operational support for CMDB processes across various environments.
  • Maintain ServiceNow Discovery for on-prem and cloud setups.
  • Monitor and ensure accurate CMDB data population.
  • Perform triage and root cause analysis for CMDB issues.
  • Manage integrations with asset and security platforms.
  • Support onboarding and maintenance of new technologies.
  • Act as first-line support for operational issues and escalate as needed.
  • Collaborate with teams to onboard assets and validate relationships.

Benefits

  • Opportunities to stabilize and scale enterprise CMDB operations.
  • Ability to enable faster onboarding of new tools and discovery sources.
  • Enhancement of data quality for audits and risk management.
  • Preservation of engineering capacity for innovation initiatives.
Full Job Description
Core Responsibilities
  • Provide daily operational support for CMDB processes covering infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise platforms.
  • Support and maintain ServiceNow Discovery across on-prem and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Monitor discovery health, ingestion pipelines, reconciliation rules, and data flows to ensure accurate CMDB population.
  • Perform operational triage, remediation, and root cause analysis for CMDB data gaps, integration failures, or ingestion anomalies.
  • Manage and support integrations with existing and new tools, including asset and security platforms (e.g., JAMF, Akamai, Imperva, Wiz, Kong, CrowdStrike).
  • Support onboarding and sustainment of new technologies and AI-enabled capabilities from an operational perspective.
  • Act as first-line operational support, escalating complex issues and partnering with senior engineers as needed.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, application, and platform teams to onboard assets and validate relationships.
  • Support platform upgrades, patches, monitoring, and performance optimization.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, diagrams, and troubleshooting guides.


Why This Role Matters
  • Stabilizes and scales enterprise CMDB operations
  • Enables faster onboarding of new tools and discovery sources
  • Improves data quality supporting audits, risk management, and IT service operations
  • Preserves senior engineering capacity for innovation and transformation initiatives


Qualifications
  • Minimum of five years related work experience.
  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
  • Foundational experience in IT infrastructure, cloud platforms, systems administration, or platform support.
  • Hands-on experience or strong familiarity with ServiceNow, ITSM concepts, and CMDB principles.
  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
  • Experience supporting or integrating enterprise tools across infrastructure, asset management, or security domains.
  • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and operational problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work effectively in a governed, standards-driven environment.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills.


Preferred / Nice to Have
  • ServiceNow certifications (System Administrator, Discovery) or willingness to obtain.
  • ITIL Foundation certification or familiarity with ITIL practices.
  • Exposure to additional enterprise tools (e.g., JAMF, Akamai, Wiz, Imperva, CrowdStrike).
  • Experience supporting discovery, data normalization, and configuration governance at scale.

Special Factors

Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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