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Are you a technologist who loves to drive innovation culture in teams and to tackle sophisticated technical challenges? If so, an exciting Dev Ops Engineer opportunity is available in Vanguard’s Compute and Storage team!

Vanguard is looking for a Dev Ops Engineer who is motivated and ready for our modernization strategy while helping peers grow their technical expertise. In this role, you will be a member of a multi-functional team working with teams across the organization to embrace innovative cloud native technologies and processes to engineer, highly scalable, resilient & secure cloud solutions.
In this role you will:
· Plan, design, build, test, and deploy enterprise infrastructure and services as code using CI/CD workflows.
· Develop the technical expertise of teams across our cloud offerings and processes.
· Drive a continuous learning mentality in various teams.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or 4+ years of professional experience
• 2+ years of hands-on development experience in an object-oriented programming language or similar.
• Experience automating and operating cloud native technologies, applications deployment, and provisioning infrastructure on Azure, GCP, or AWS
• Automation/Orchestration experience: Ansible, Decisions, Postman, ServiceNow, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloudformation, API Gateway, Terraform or ARM Templates
• Strong coding and scripting: REST API development, Javascript (NodeJs), Python, Java, Bash, PowerShell, Perl
• Experience with cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, Code Deploy, API Gateway or similar.
• Experience with system deployment and decommissioning
• Experience designing workflows
• Understanding of network provisioning and automation
•  Understanding of enterprise storage configurations and concepts
• Experience with load balancing and firewall technology concepts as it relates to application architecture
• Monitoring and event management experience
• Hands on experiences with distributed application architecture such as containers, Kubernetes, or Serverless technologies
• Experience with Agile practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing & firewall
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating tools such as Splunk, DataDog
• Experience with cloud native security implementations DevSecOps or MLOps
• Cloud certifications for Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard’s core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

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.

Work environment

Participate in the transformation to electromobility at Volkswagen Kassel. Become part of the development team in the field of electric drives. We are working together on the next generation of electric drives and need your support in simulation. As part of an interdisciplinary team of simulation, testing, data scientists and design engineers, you will help to improve the virtual design process of electric drives.

Possible Tasks within this Role

• Preparation of manufacturing tolerances and expansion of existing multi-body simulation models of electric drivetrains
• Definition of parameter spaces and identification of useful variants
• Optimization of the models with regard to computing time
• Recognizing correlations between the applied parameter space and results as well as pattern recognition with the help of AI methods
• Deriving suggestions for determining permissible tolerances in order to avoid acoustic phenomena or comply with limit curves

The final doctoral topic is defined together with the professor (f/m/d). The prerequisite for the cooperation is the confirmation of supervision as well as a confirmed delimitation of topics by the professor (f/m/d) of a university or research institution entitled to confer a doctorate.

Qualification requirements

• Good to very good university degree with eligibility for a doctorate in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, automotive engineering, technomathematics, physics or comparable courses
• Knowledge of and interest in virtual development, artificial intelligence, dynamics and multi-body simulation
• Very good knowledge of Matlab and Python
• You have business-fluent knowledge of German and English (B2)
• Your personal strengths include an analytical, solution-oriented and structured way of working

What we offer

• Attractive salary & 30 vacation days (+ 24.12. and 31.12. off)
• 35-hour week, flexible working hours, remote work
• Special conditions for the purchase and leasing of vehicles
• Free seminars on scientific work and interdisciplinary qualifications
• Participation in the doctoral network for scientific exchange with science representatives and other doctoral candidates within the Volkswagen Group
• subsequent possibility of permanent employment

Contact person for this posting: Fabian Wenzel