Hybrid Data Reliability Engineer

at Vanguard

• Job title: Data Reliability Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Grafana, Python, Splunk, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Malvern, United States

About the role

• Data Reliability Engineer on Personal Investor Data & Analytics team responsible for ensuring data reliability and efficiency. Collaborating with various teams to identify issues and implement solutions within data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Proactively analyzes data pipeline & platform logs and metrics to identify trends and potential issues.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Gain insights into PI Data & Analytics operations, demonstrates and champions Reliability culture and practices, builds relationships, and influences Reliability as a way of thought.
• Exhibits proficiency in data reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other Reliability best practices.
• Communicates progress, issues, trends, and solutions to management and partner organizations.
• Maintains proactive knowledge and understanding of pending elevations, enhancements, and infrastructure changes.
• Proactively identifies potential failure points and designs strategies to ensure that failures remain localized, preventing widespread disruption and contagion.
• Collaborates with internal teams to evaluate the health, stability, and reliability of systems/platforms.
• Collaborates with product teams in triage and troubleshooting during client impacting incidents.
• Participates in and/or facilitates post-incident reviews for any client-impacting events local to the Personal Investor Data & Analytics products.
• Maintains centralized incident response playbook, in collaboration with DRE Champions on each product team.
• Collaborates with DRE Champions and/or product team points of contacts to ensure adherence to the common operating model and standard development playbooks.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years related experience, with at least two years of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• 1-3 years of Reliability Engineering experience.
• 2 years of DevOps experience.
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated individual with the ability to prioritize and manage changing priorities.
• Experience and understanding of working in AWS data engineering products, Python, and SQL.
• Proficiency and experience in observability, and telemetry tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Grafana, Datadog, etc.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Professional development opportunities