Cloud Engineer – Tech Lead (FaaS Platform)

Vanguard • Malvern, PA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

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

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Node (nice to have)
• Java (nice to have)
• strong experience Platform Engineering Experience building or operating internal platforms or developer tooling
• strong experience with HTTP and Web patterns

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
• Experience supporting production systems with on-call accountability
• 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

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree