ECS Platform Engineer

Vanguard Group, Inc.

$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of related work experience with 1+ year in platform operations or development
  • Familiarity with AWS core concepts and services
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
  • Core development and strong problem-solving skills
  • Experience with modern software practices and automation
  • Proficient in a scripting language (preferably Python/Go)
  • Ability to troubleshoot throughout the development lifecycle

Responsibilities

  • Provide junior level IT services for critical operational projects
  • Ensure IT deliverables' viability and approve team PRs
  • Identify and solve technical issues and elevate complex problems to experts
  • Communicate project issues and influence stakeholders effectively
  • Maintain knowledge of IT methodologies and mentor IT staff
  • Collaborate on IT documentation and write technical standards
  • Identify opportunities for quality improvement in technical practices

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on learning and teaching
  • Opportunity for continuous quality improvement
  • Mentorship from senior IT staff
  • Exposure to modern technologies and cloud-native solutions
Full Job Description
In this role, you will:
  • Provide junior level IT services and direction for critical platform operational projects. Provides technical expertise and completes medium-to-complex development, design, and implementation, and maintenance activities.
  • Ensure the viability of IT deliverables. Approver on team PRs. Conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
  • Identify potential solutions and provide insights on technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevate complex technical issues to tech leads, architects, and IT experts. Resolve technical problems discovered by internal clients. Respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner. Research issues and perform root cause analysis.
  • Communicate with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluate the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas.
  • Maintain a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentor IT staff and identify training needs.
  • Review and collaborate on documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Write documentation, including technical standards and processes.
  • Identify opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
  • Participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues.


What it takes:
  • Minimum of 3+ years related work experience, with at least 1 year of platform operation or development experience.
  • Familiarity with AWS core concepts and services.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • Strong core development skills and problem-solving skills.
  • Disposition for proactive solutioning with a preference for automation.
  • Experience with modern software practices and automation.
  • Experience with a scripting language, preferably Python/Go.
  • Ability to troubleshoot effectively throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Ability to self-train on emerging technologies and share what you learn with others.
  • Eye on reducing Developer Cognitive Load.
  • Passion for Cloud Native Observability and Resiliency Engineering.
  • Experience building applications and services using AWS or Kubernetes.
  • Collaborative - Learn & Teach mindset.


Beneficial but not required skills:
  • CKA Certification.
  • Monitoring and alerting production workloads
  • Managing AWS infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
  • AWS Technical Certifications


Special Factors

Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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