Senior Edge Security Architect

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

Job summary

LPL Financial seeks an AVP, Edge Security Engineer to design, build, and support enterprise edge infrastructure and security controls within the Network & Security Engineering team. You will craft technical designs, maintain architecture artifacts, and ensure alignment with security standards.

The role requires a strong mix of security and operations in a 24/7 environment, with collaboration across engineering, business units, and partners to deliver scalable, secure solutions and drive

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise edge infrastructure and security controls using CDN platforms such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai
• 4+ years' hands-on experience with enterprise monitoring platforms (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana)
• 3+ years' hands-on experience with global load balancing (GLB) solutions (e.g., NS1, AWS Route 53, UltraDNS, Cloudflare Load Balancing)
• 2+ years' hands-on experience managing enterprise DNS solutions (e.g., Infoblox, BIND)
• 2+ years experience building infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, or Go
• 4+ years' experience collaborating with development teams and project/program managers to architect and deliver infrastructure solutions

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
• Define and implement edge security infrastructure standards to drive automation, scale, and consistency
• Improve availability, security, and observability while closing control gaps across edge environments
• Conduct research and proof-of-concepts (POCs) to evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-driven solutions
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams and business stakeholders to deliver secure, customer-focused solutions
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting availability, security, and performance incidents

Skills

Edge infrastructure

Security controls

CDN platforms

Monitoring platforms

Global load balancing

DNS solutions

Infrastructure as code

Automation tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Go

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Microsoft 365

Job description

LPL Financial seeks an AVP, Edge Security Engineer to design, build, and support enterprise edge infrastructure and security controls within the Network & Security Engineering team. You will craft technical designs, maintain architecture artifacts, and ensure alignment with security standards.

The role requires a strong mix of security and operations in a 24/7 environment, with collaboration across engineering, business units, and partners to deliver scalable, secure solutions and drive