AVP Edge Security Engineer - Lead Secure Edge Infra

LPL Financial LLC; Fort Mill, Charlotte (SC, NC); On-site; USD 123,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

and more

Job summary

LPL Financial LLC in Fort Mill, SC is seeking an AVP, Edge Security Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise edge infrastructure and security controls within the Network & Security Engineering team.

You will collaborate with architecture and engineering partners, drive automation using Terraform/Ansible, and lead threat hunting and incident response in a 24/7 enterprise environment, reporting to the VP II of Network & Security Engineering.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing and supporting enterprise edge infrastructure and security controls.
• Hands-on with CDN platforms (Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly) and enterprise monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana).
• Experience with global load balancing and DNS solutions; automation tooling (Terraform/Ansible) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and support highly available, secure, and scalable edge infrastructure.
• Partner with Enterprise and Security Architecture teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise security standards.
• Perform continuous edge threat hunting and mitigation; drive automation and standardization.
• Define edge security infrastructure standards to enable scale and consistency.
• Improve availability, security, and observability while closing control gaps across edge environments.
• Conduct research and POCs to evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-driven solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, customer-focused solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotation for availability, security, and performance incidents.

Skills

Edge security engineering

Threat hunting

Automation and orchestration

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call incident response

Team leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Go

Cloudflare

AWS Route 53

Infoblox

Job description

LPL Financial LLC in Fort Mill, SC is seeking an AVP, Edge Security Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise edge infrastructure and security controls within the Network & Security Engineering team.

You will collaborate with architecture and engineering partners, drive automation using Terraform/Ansible, and lead threat hunting and incident response in a 24/7 enterprise environment, reporting to the VP II of Network & Security Engineering.