Senior Application Engineering Technical Lead
About The Position
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. 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.
Requirements
- Strong experience in Angular (v8+) , Spring Boot , and RESTful APIs
- Proficiency in AWS services and cloud-native operations
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform)
- Expertise in monitoring/logging tools: Splunk, CloudWatch, Datadog
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture and containerization ( Docker, ECS )
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Minimum 5–8+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years in development
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; Master’s preferred
Responsibilities
- Application Monitoring & Incident Management: Implement and optimize observability practices using Splunk, CloudWatch, Honeycomb, and Datadog
- Proactively monitor performance and triage production issues across UI (Angular) , backend (Spring Boot) , and AWS cloud infrastructure
- Root Cause Analysis & Continuous Improvement: Perform deep-dive failure analysis using logs and dashboards.
- Collaborate with developers to deliver hotfixes and long-term stability solutions
- Deployment & Release Engineering: Support CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.
- Validate releases in staging and production, ensuring rollback strategies are in place
- Cloud Infrastructure Operations: Manage and optimize AWS services ( ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, IAM ).
- Drive cost-efficiency initiatives like right-sizing and serverless adoption
- Security & Compliance: Enforce security best practices and compliance standards.
- Support audits and implement controls for sensitive data
- Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
- Lead knowledge transfer sessions and foster team learning
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
