New Grad - Technology, Infrastructure & Operations

Overview

What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence.
What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? As the nation's largest independent broker-dealer firm and a member of the Fortune 500, we're evolving into a high-performance fintech organization
. Joining us as a technologist puts you at the heart of this transformation. With locations in Austin, Charlotte, and San Diego, our team of dedicated professionals supports financial advisors in enhancing their clients' financial futures. Your work will revolutionize our support for financial advisors and make a difference to millions of lives. If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial.

Our Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams at LPL Financial designs, builds, and maintains the technology systems that power the company. This includes cloud platforms, data centers, networks, and enterprise applications. Their job is to ensure these systems are secure, scalable, and always available. They use automation, monitoring tools, and incident response strategies to keep things running smoothly and support continuous software delivery with minimal downtime.

If you're starting your career in tech, I&O offers a great opportunity to work with large-scale systems and modern tools. You might help build infrastructure using code, optimize cloud services, monitor system performance, or support platform engineering projects. These roles provide hands-on experience with tools like AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and more—while making a real impact on the reliability and performance of LPL’s technology.

This position would like the ideal candidate to be local to the Fort Mill and San Diego offices operating on a hybrid schedule at the manager’s discretion.

• Infrastructure Platform Engineer: work with production and non-production systems across cloud and on-prem environments. Use software engineering principles to automate tasks, improve reliability and scalability, and solve technical problems before they affect users. Responsible for the infrastructure that supports key products, ensuring security, resilience, and alignment with business needs. Experience with Terraform, monitoring platforms, and cloud services is ideal.
• Tech Support Analyst: help LPL employees with IT needs—fix issues, answer questions, or help set up with new tools. Communicate across phone, chat, and email to resolve problems quickly. Support broader IT initiatives, like onboarding new hires, promoting adoption of new technologies, and helping build a knowledge base for future automation and AI-driven support.
• Systems Engineer: manage cloud and on-prem systems that support LPL’s technology platforms. Take an engineering-first approach to operations—automating workflows, improving performance, and ensuring security and resilience. Identify and fix issues, deploy infrastructure using code, and optimize system operations.

We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness
, act with integrity
, and are driven to help our clients succeed
. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

• Bachelor’s Degree or advanced degree in Computer Science, or related field required
• Classroom experience directly related to your preferred role
• Experiences such as an internship, hackathon, research project or related experience
• Demonstrated proactive approach to problem solving and task completion, taking ownership of assignments

• Proficient organizational and communication skills, both oral and written
• Demonstrated time management skills
• Strong intellectual curiosity and willingness to embrace change and quickly learn new technologies and frameworks as the…