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If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what's possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.
Job Overview:As an AVP Tech, DevOps Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the Enterprise DevSecOps Engineering team and drive initiatives that enhance developer experience, delivery velocity, quality, and security across the organization. This role partners closely with engineering teams and enterprise platform providers to establish DevOps strategy, define technical roadmaps, implement scalable solutions, and promote operational excellence across cloud and CI/CD ecosystems.
Responsibilities:- Lead engineering initiatives that improve developer experience and accelerate software delivery across the enterprise.
- Drive operational excellence for connected services supporting continuous 24x7x365 operations.
- Gather technical requirements from business and technology stakeholders and develop enterprise CI/CD strategies and objectives.
- Provide technical leadership and establish standards that align engineering outcomes with business priorities.
- Partner with engineering leadership to define, promote, and scale DevOps practices across product engineering teams.
- Develop multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with business and technology objectives.
- Establish deployment standards, reusable interfaces, and automation frameworks for enterprise adoption.
- Evaluate industry trends and continuously improve deployment processes, tooling, and engineering practices.
- Use data-driven approaches to understand user needs and prioritize platform enhancements.
- Develop a deep understanding of business capabilities, technology domains, and end-to-end dependencies.
- Drive innovation and automation that improve developer productivity and platform capabilities.
- Participate in strategic planning activities to achieve technical and business objectives.
- Collaborate with Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, Quality Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Change & Release Management teams to deliver scalable technical solutions and prioritized roadmaps.
What Are We Looking For?We are seeking collaborative leaders who consistently
pursue greatness,
act with integrity, are
driven to help our clients succeed,
win together, and
create and share joy. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong technical leadership, effective stakeholder partnership, sound decision-making, and a commitment to continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements:- 8+ years of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) experience across multiple technology disciplines, including at least 5 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise CI/CD solutions.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience automating, deploying, and managing cloud-based applications and infrastructure in AWS.
- 2+ years of experience working with container orchestration platforms such as Amazon EKS or Red Hat OpenShift.
- 1+ year of hands-on experience implementing and supporting feature flag strategies and Blue-Green deployment architectures in enterprise environments.
- Experience across DevOps lifecycle domains including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Container Orchestration, Configuration Management, Infrastructure Automation, Monitoring and Observability, and Security and Compliance.
Core Competencies:- Knowledge of basic .NET, Angular, and Python development and deployment constructs.
- Troubleshooting skills using PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripting.
- Ability to learn and quickly absorb new material with strong troubleshooting capabilities.
- Strong organizational skills and adaptability to changing priorities and workloads.
- Ability to work independently and maintain focus in a dynamic environment.
- Deep understanding of API design principles, platform design versus application design, and modern API tooling.
- Experience managing dynamic global configurations for applications and environment variables.
- Experience with DevOps automation practices including branching strategies, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Everything-as-Code, Kubernetes, GitOps, Blue-Green deployments, and Canary deployments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
Preferences:- Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting enterprise DevOps platforms and tools including GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, Octopus Deploy, AWS services, testing automation tools, and security and vulnerability management tools.
- Demonstrated ability to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI capabilities within DevOps toolchains and engineering workflows to improve developer productivity, automation, operational efficiency, and delivery outcomes.
- Experience building source control management (SCM), continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery (CD) solutions that simplify the developer experience.
- Demonstrated problem-solving, technical leadership, and team coaching capabilities.
- Experience developing and maintaining relationships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, and direct reports.
Pay Range: $118,656.00 - $197,760.00
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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
Company Overview: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(6) , 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. For further information about LPL, please visit ;br>
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.
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