Application Engineer - III

About You

• You care deeply about continuous improvement in both technology and personal development
• You take pride in your work, and have a breadth of IT experiences and products that show it
• You align with Vanguard's core mission - to take a stand for investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success
• You work best in collaborative, trusting, goal-oriented environments

About the Position

"Developers build the sandcastle, we build the sandbox" - it's an oversimplification, but it reflects what we do - to enable developers to do their best work by simplifying and automating their infrastructure and deployment needs, through tools like Dexter, GitHub, Ansible, and more.

In your role, you will:

• Help build a world-class development ecosystem in PITech by building new and refining existing code and content deployment paradigms
• Automate manual processes through tools like GitHub Actions and Ansible.
• Contribute to the modernization of deployment pipelines by creating a repeatable process through which applications deployed via legacy tools (Ansible) can be migrated to modernized tools (GitHub)
• Prioritize work based on client impact and business value
• Review code submitted by other engineers to ensure excellence
• Develop custom supplemental products and functions

Tech Stack

While pipeline engineering experience is preferred, we are interested in candidates from any technical background so long as you are passionate about your work and have experience developing and deploying enterprise level systems. With that said, here is the technology we use that you can expect to encounter:

• GitHub
• Ansible Tower
• AWS ECS, S3, Lambdas
• Docker
• Kubernetes, Kong Gateway
• Attunity/Qlik Replicate
• Python, Java, YAML
• Splunk, Honeycomb, Grafana

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.

Client-provided location(s): Charlotte, NC, Malvern, PA

Job ID: Vanguard-175027

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-05-01T20:28:05