About the Role
Seeking an AVP Cloud Delivery Architect for LPL’s Infrastructure Solutions Architecture / Engineering organization. The Cloud Delivery Architect will possess technical expertise and engineering skills in AWS, acting as a subject matter expert to design reliable, scalable, and secure AWS technical infrastructure solutions. This individual must be able to work in a fast-paced, start-up-like environment, identify requirements, and facilitate implementation while following change control and release processes.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with customers/project teams to understand business requirements and capture technical requirements necessary to produce an infrastructure design.
- Perform systems analysis and evaluations on existing application infrastructure to gain knowledge of the technologies and capabilities of the platform.
- Be a subject matter expert in AWS security; identity access management; users, roles, policies, permissions, etc.
- Be a subject matter expert and provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services, focusing on lambda, glue, RDS, step functions, etc.
- Define and develop new cloud Reference Architectures.
- Participate in application roadmap planning with stakeholders, application teams, and engineering groups.
- Contribute to policies, procedures, and standards.
- Collaborate with project team members as part of an agile well-formed team.
- Utilize Jira consistently to track work and provide project status and updates.
- Provide guidance and consultation on infrastructure deployments.
- Perform capacity workload modeling and availability analysis for a variety of platforms and environments.
- Recommend changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability, and performance.
- Promote and recommend opportunities for automation and efficiency gains.
- Participate in the creation and maintenance of delivery metrics.
- Execute on multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience of cloud architecture design.
- 5+ years hands-on experience as an AWS subject matter expert deploying applications.
- 5+ years of experience developing architecture diagrams and documentation.
- 5+ years of experience developing/documenting build specifications using Excel.
- 5+ years of designing and developing utilizing common AWS services like EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, Any RDS, Streaming (Kafka), Messaging (SQS, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ), Caching (Redis, Ignite, Redshift, Elasticache), NO-SQL and API Gateway.
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code deployments using Terraform.
- Experience utilizing AWS AMIs with Amazon Linux and Windows Server.
- Experience connecting On-Prem Active Directory with AWS services.
- Experience with AWS Network protocols and diagnosing connection-related issues.
- Firewalls Rule Management, Port Translation, Quality of Service, and Network Protocol Routing.
Skills
- AWS
- AWS security
- identity access management
- users, roles, policies, permissions
- lambda
- glue
- RDS
- step functions
- Jira
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- AWS AMI’s
- Amazon Linux
- Windows Server
- On-Prem Active Directory
- AWS Network protocols
- Firewalls Rule Management
- Port Translation
- Quality of Service
- Network Protocol Routing
- Network Security Best Practices
- SSL Certificate Requests
- Installation
- PKI Management
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- AVP
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree
- AWS Solutions Architect Certification
Salary/Compensations
- $123,497.00 - $205,897.00
Benefits
- 401K matching
- health benefits
- employee stock options
- paid time off
- volunteer time off
About the Company
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans.
- The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.
- At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business.
- They have the flexibility to do business their way.
- And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best.
- Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
- LPL Financial is the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer.
- Our company is widely known for its financial strength, exceptional service, and favorable industry reputation among financial professionals.
- Our core belief: financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone.
- LPL Financial creates the space to let you do what you do best – create personal, long-term client relationships that turn financial aspirations into realities.
- Each year, thousands of financial professionals successfully manage billions of dollars in assets.
- Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Principals only.
- EOE.
