Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Core Responsibilities

• Defines and owns the technical architecture for CSPM tooling automation platforms and integration frameworks ensuring they scale reliably across thousands of cloud accounts and multiple business units.

• Designs system-level patterns (event-driven pipelines API contracts data models) that other engineers build on establishing the foundational approach for how security findings flow from detection through prioritization to remediation.

• Drives architectural decisions on platform extensibility service boundaries and data ownership balancing near-term delivery against long-term maintainability as the program grows.

• Architects auto-remediation and shift-left enforcement systems that operate at org scale designing for fault tolerance auditability and graceful degradation when upstream systems change.

• Evaluates and selects tooling frameworks and integration patterns that the broader team adopts owning the technical standards for how CSPM systems connect to enterprise infrastructure (CI/CD CMDB ITSM identity providers).

• Partners with engineering leadership across Platform DevOps SRE and application security teams to align on shared interfaces data contracts and remediation workflows that reduce friction at organizational boundaries.

• Leads technical design reviews and mentors engineers on the team raising the bar on code quality system thinking and operational readiness.

• Shapes the technical roadmap for AI-assisted security capabilities evaluating where machine learning and LLM-based automation can meaningfully reduce risk or operational burden and architecting the systems to deliver them.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years related work experience required with two years experience in cloud security preferred.

• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.

• Proficiency in Python Go or TypeScript - production-grade not just scripting

• Strong background in distributed systems concepts: event-driven architectures async processing API design observability

• Hands-on experience across at least one of: AWS GCP Azure at the level of org-wide account structures landing zones and cross-account security patterns and IAM at scale.

• Track record of influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere 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.

Required Experience:

Senior IC