VP, Cloud Delivery Architect

Job Overview

Seeking a VP Cloud Delivery Architect for LPL’s Infrastructure Solutions Architecture / Engineering organization. The Cloud Delivery Architect will possess technical expertise and engineering skills in AWS, which allows them to be considered a subject matter expert and lead for designing 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 appropriate change control and release processes.

• 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
• Participate in application roadmap planning with stakeholders, application teams and engineering groups
• Contributes 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
• Performs capacity workload modeling and availability analysis for a variety of platforms and environments.
• Recommends changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability, and performance.
• Promote and recommend opportunities for automation and efficiency gains
• Participates in the creation and maintenance of delivery metrics
• Execute on multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward

We want strong collaborators who 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.

• 8+ years of experience of cloud architecture design
• 7+ years hands on experience as an AWS subject matter expert deploying applications
• 7+ years of experience developing architecture diagrams and documentation
• 7+ years of experience developing / documenting build specifications using Excel
• 7+ 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 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

• 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: $ - $

• 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,…