AVP, Cloud Delivery Architect

Job Overview

Seeking an AVP Cloud Delivery Architect for LPL’s Infrastructure Solutions Architecture / Engineering organization.

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 be able to provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services: focusing on lambda, glue, RDS, step functions, etc.
• Define and develop new cloud Reference Architectures
• Contribute to 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
• Core Competencies: Hands on Infrastructure as Code deployments using Terraform, Experience utilizing AWS AMI’s 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
• Preferences: Bachelor’s Degree, Certifications are a plus (AWS Solutions Architect), Network Security Best Practices and Implementation across diverse technologies and hardware infrastructure, SSL Certificate Requests, Installation and PKI Management, Technical Project Management experience a plus

Pay Range

$123,497.00 - $205,897.00 Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.

About the Role

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.