Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Job ID R-027441 Date posted 01/04/2023

Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working in meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!

LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader* in the markets we serve, supporting more than 18,000 financial advisors, 800 institution-based investment programs and 450 independent RIA firms nationwide.

We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-centered model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial advisor. At LPL, independence means that advisors have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run their perfect practice. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

Job Overview:

Cloud/DevOps Engineer supports ongoing development of cloud and infrastructure as code platform solutions needed to host business-critical applications that differentiate LPL in the market

Responsibilities:

• Builds IaC solutions adhering to DevOps principles using tools like Gitlab, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins

• Accountable for site reliability engineering (SRE) activities to build highly available and scalable solutions and ensure problem observability of platforms / services 

• Develops enterprise services on AWS utilizing IaaS/ PaaS solutions including EC2, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, R53, S3, Lambda, API Gateway

• Leads initiatives and partners with development, architecture and security teams to build pipelines that enable application/service onboarding in cloud adjacent DCs and AWS

• Builds/implements platforms guardrails to enable self-service allowing product owner to build and own services

• Participates in Kanban delivery model to deliver sprint releases through stories/epics utilizing Jira to track all development work 

• Serves as a subject matter expert to design, administer and support security of infrastructure and enterprise hosting platforms 

• Delivers on complex infrastructure initiatives 

• Builds / Maintains strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture and Security

What are we looking for?

We want strong collaboratorswho can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 1-3 years of experience and comfort working in an agile environment ( Scrum and Kanban )

• 1-3 years of experience developing maintainable/ scalable platforms

Core Competencies:

• Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile project Delivery

• Extensive experience using system management configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CF/YAML/JSON) to manage compute infrastructure at scale

• Highly collaborative with experience in a hands-on technical role

Preferences:

• AWS Solutions Architect

• AWS DevOps Engineer

• Proven experience building/communicating/executing automation frameworks to reduce waste and improving efficiencies

• Experience designing / deploying infrastructure utilizing common AWS services (ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, EFS, EBS, Route53, API Gateway)

• Experience with AWS Landing Zone / Control Tower

• Extensive experience building end-to-end automation for core infrastructure services 

• Extensive experience accelerating migration of infrastructure and platforms to AWS

• Ability to lead large enterprise infrastructure projects

• ALZ, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, ELB, RDS, CloudWatch, Storage Gateway, Glacier, EBS, EFS, S3, Lamdba, CodePipeline, Python, YAML, JSON, Gitlab, Jira, Terraform, CouldFront

• CI/CD (GitHub, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible)

• Agile Methodologies : Scrum/Kanban

• Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong executive presence

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Pay Range:

$115,720-$173,580/year

The salary range is dependent on a number of factors, including the applicant’s skill, experience, and work location.

Why LPL? 

At LPL, we believe that objective financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services. We provide you with a work environment that encourages your creativity and growth, a leadership team that is supportive and responsive, and the opportunity to create a career that has no limits, only amazing potential.

We are one team on one mission. We take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. We are committed to supporting workplace equality, and we embrace the different perspectives and backgrounds of our employees.We also care for our communities, and we encourage our employees to do the same. This creates an environment in which you can do your best work.

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Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (800) 877-7210.