Core Responsibilities:
Evaluate applications, platforms, and vendors to assess resiliency, reliability, and operational risk.
Design and implement processes that enforce enterprise resiliency and reliability standards.
Lead blameless post‑incident reviews for high‑severity incidents or incidents spanning multiple complex product families.
Partner with product and platform teams to proactively identify and remediate reliability risks before they impact clients.
Develop, communicate, and evangelize new standards, tools, and frameworks across subdivisions, ensuring consistent adoption.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and implement durable solutions that prevent recurrence.
Participate in a periodic on‑call rotation to support production stability.
Evaluate and onboard resiliency and reliability tooling.
Actively participate in reliability engineering and resilience communities of practice, contributing to shared learning and enterprise consistency.
Contribute to strategic initiatives that advance Vanguard’s operational maturity and resiliency posture.
Qualifications | Technical Skills:
Observability Platforms: Experience with modern observability and monitoring tools, such as Splunk, Honeycomb, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
Reliability Metrics: Strong understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, including dashboarding and reporting practices.
Monitoring & Alerting: Experience with alert design, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and synthetic monitoring using structured methodologies.
Automation & Resilience Engineering: Experience with automation and resilience practices such as Python-based automation, RPA platforms (e.g., Blue Prism, UiPath), chaos engineering, and failure analysis techniques (e.g., FMEA).
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.
Skills Required
- Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Honeycomb, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
- Strong understanding and practical application of SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, including dashboarding and reporting.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting design, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and synthetic monitoring.
- Experience with automation and resilience engineering, including Python-based automation, RPA platforms (Blue Prism, UiPath), chaos engineering, and failure analysis techniques (FMEA).
- Ability to lead blameless post-incident reviews for high-severity or cross-product incidents.
- Participation in a periodic on-call rotation to support production stability.
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
