Vanguard
Vanguard
Vanguard is a global investment management company serving investors through products such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. Its work is guided by a long-term focus on helping clients pursue investment success, with an emphasis on fairness and keeping investors at the center of decision-making. Vanguard’s culture values teamwork, inclusion, and the contribution of diverse perspectives and experiences.

Site Reliability Specialist – Vanguard (Manchester, Hybrid)

Strengthen Vanguard’s UK and European investment platforms through site reliability engineering. Lead resilience testing, incident support, and adoption of SRE practices across European application teams.

Description

  • Run cross-product chaos and resilience experiments to uncover weaknesses before they cause incidents.
  • Promote reliability standards, tools, and frameworks with application teams and stakeholders across Europe.
  • Help embed site reliability engineering practices by championing cultural change.
  • Contribute to Reliability Engineering and Resilience communities of practice.
  • Share insights from the wider SRE community with the team.
  • Take on special projects and other duties as the role and team’s needs evolve.
  • Support incident management and site reliability engineering across UK and European platforms.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product owners, business stakeholders, and global SRE colleagues.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of site reliability engineering principles and practices.
  • Excellent communication skills and confidence engaging stakeholders across functions.
  • Ability to lead change and encourage teams to adopt reliability standards and practices.
  • Expertise with AWS.
  • AWS certifications are an advantage.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
  • Able to work in the office three days a week, Tuesday through Thursday.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working arrangement.
  • In-person opportunities for learning, collaboration, and connection.
  • Access to Vanguard’s low-cost, straightforward investment offerings, reflecting the company’s philosophy; this is not an employee benefit.

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