AVP, Azure & Compute Engineering

LPL Financial; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 112,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Health benefits

Stock options

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Job summary

LPL Financial in Fort Mill, SC is seeking a Senior Microsoft Azure Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our Windows Server infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security for our financial services environment.

You will drive automation with Infrastructure as Code, collaborate across IT teams, and apply Azure governance practices, RBAC, and monitoring to optimize cost and reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Azure services across compute, storage, networking, and databases with scalable, secure, resilient cloud design
• 5+ years in Azure security features (RBAC, Azure Security Center, Key Vault) and Azure AD for identity management
• 5+ years of Azure monitoring using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Management Groups
• 5+ years of Azure DevOps services for CI/CD and IaC, plus Azure governance concepts (Policy, Blueprint, Cost Management)
• 5+ years of hybrid cloud solutions with Azure Arc and familiarity with Azure data services for integration and analytics

Responsibilities

• Administer and manage Active Directory infrastructure to maintain an efficient and secure user environment.
• Monitor server performance and conduct system health checks to proactively identify and resolve issues, optimizing performance for financial applications.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to plan and implement server infrastructure upgrades, patches, and migrations, ensuring minimal disruption to financial operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve server-related incidents and problems, minimizing impact on financial business processes.
• Create and maintain technical documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure accurate system recovery processes.
• Drive architecture designs with an 'automation first' approach, focusing on Infrastructure as Code.
• Identify risks in the environment that threaten stability, resiliency, performance, and security.
• Responsible for operating system templates and deployment automation.
• Evaluate tools/products to resolve technology gaps and participate in application roadmap planning.
• Stay updated with industry trends and best practices, recommending enhancements to meet evolving business needs.

Skills

Azure Architecture

Azure Security

Azure Monitoring

Azure DevOps

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Hybrid cloud

Data Services (Azure)

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Terraform

Puppet

Ansible

ServiceNow

Infoblox

JIRA

Job description

LPL Financial in Fort Mill, SC is seeking a Senior Microsoft Azure Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our Windows Server infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security for our financial services environment.

You will drive automation with Infrastructure as Code, collaborate across IT teams, and apply Azure governance practices, RBAC, and monitoring to optimize cost and reliability.