Senior Cloud Engineer

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

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.

Cloud Support engineers at LPL run the cloud - they're the first humans on every ticket from an application team and the people who turn 'this happened again' into 'we automated it.' As Engineer 2, Cloud Support Engineer, you'll triage tickets, execute runbooks, fulfill account / IAM / access requests, support change windows, and respond to production cloud incidents inside the Support team, with senior engineers, AVPs, and the VP, Support close  you want to learn AWS at a Tier 1 financial firm by running it for real with a globally distributed team across the US and India, this is your seat.

Job Overview:

As the Engineer 2, Cloud Support Engineer, you are a hands-on mid-level cloud operations engineer in the Support team in LPL's Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE). You support LPL's 24x7 Tier 1 / Tier 2 production support for the AWS landing zone - the run-the-cloud function inside CCOE - alongside senior engineers, AVPs, and the VP, Support. Day-to-day you triage inbound tickets from application teams across Jira and Service Now, fulfill account / IAM / access requests, execute and improve runbooks, support change windows, and respond to production cloud incidents.

You partner closely with the Monitoring pod within Foundations on alert routing into Service Now and runbook execution, and you escalate cleanly into the Foundations pods (Security & Governance, Fin Ops, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring), Platforms, Containers, and Delivery when the issue is beyond the Support team's remit. LPL is an AWS-first CCOE: a multi-account landing zone with 100+ private reusable Terraform modules that enable 60+ AWS services, all delivered through Terraform Cloud and Git Hub Actions.

You spend the majority of your time hands-on in tickets, runbooks, Terraform, and incident response across LPL's US offices and India Global Capability Center (GCC) - and you continuously turn repeatable requests into automated, self-service paths.

Responsibilities:

• Triage inbound tickets from application teams across Jira and Service Now against clear SLAs: own the ticket end-to-end if it's Tier 1 / Tier 2 scope, and escalate cleanly into the Foundations pods (Security & Governance, Fin Ops, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring), Platforms, Containers, and Delivery when it's not
• Fulfill account / IAM / access requests for the landing zone and actively turn the repeatable ones into self-service paths through the Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) and the private Terraform module library
• Execute and improve runbooks for known incident classes; pair with the Monitoring pod within Foundations to feed incident lessons back into durable monitoring and runbook improvements
• Support change-management execution: change-window participation, Service Now change-record discipline, and verification of changes against the affected accounts and workloads
• Embed agentic AI capabilities into the team's engineering practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Bedrock, MCP servers, agentic IaC and review workflows) and into the platform's self-service experience for internal customers
• Use agentic AI capabilities in your day-to-day support work: AI-assisted ticket triage and routing, conversational self-service for common account / IAM / access requests via MCP, runbook generation and lookup, and on-call copilots that summarize recent telemetry and chat during incidents
• Operate as a hands-on mid-level cloud engineer in the pod: spend the majority of your time in Terraform code, AWS console / CLI, design documents, peer code review, and incident response - execution and growth are the primary leverage points
• Personally participate in 24x7 on-call rotations as a primary responder for production incidents within the pod's scope; grow into senior responder framing over time with support from AVPs and VPs
• Consume the private Terraform module library and reference patterns to ship application-aligned infrastructure; raise small, well-scoped pull requests against shared modules and the Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) foundational base layer to improve what you use
• Partner with peer engineers, AVPs, and VPs across the Cloud Center of Excellence - the five CCOE teams (Foundations, Platforms, Containers, Support, Delivery) and the five Foundations pods (Security & Governance, Fin Ops, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring) - to deliver pod outcomes; ask for help early and pass what you learn on to peers
• Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework in the work you touch and drive continuous improvement against operational, security,…