Site Reliability Engineer

Vanguard is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of mission-critical platforms supporting investment management and digital client experiences. This role blends software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and operations, with a strong emphasis on automation and resilience in a highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems
• Implement SRE best practices: SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments
• Improve observability using metrics, logs, and tracing
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and RCA
• Lead blameless postmortems and reliability improvements
• Partner with application teams to embed reliability early
• Ensure adherence to security, audit, and compliance standards
• Reduce operational toil via automation and self-healing systems

Required Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS and/or Azure (hybrid environments)
• Kubernetes & Docker
• Linux systems administration
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform / CloudFormation

Programming & Automation

• Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or Bash
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus, Grafana
• Splunk / ELK
• Datadog or New Relic