Senior Network Security Engineer - Cloud & Firewalls

LPL Financial LLC; Fort Mill (SC); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. is seeking an AVP Tech Network Engineer, Security to design, engineer, and operate advanced network security solutions for clients and advisors.

The role emphasizes hands-on security hardening, cloud deployments in AWS/Azure, and integration tooling. Hybrid work is supported with travel up to 10%. A strong collaboration mindset and industry certifications are valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Network and Security Engineering experience.
• 2+ years of security technologies/products such as DDoS, proxy, VPN, firewall orchestration and/or NAC.
• 2+ years of network security hardening and controls with logging tools (SolarWinds, LiveNX, ELK).
• 2+ years of network defense technology on premise and cloud.
• Hands-on with Radware Defense Pro, Palo Alto, Fortinet and Cisco security products.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer network security solutions focusing on Palo Alto and Cisco FTD.
• Automate tasks using Python or Perl and API integrations for data exchange.
• Engineer and operate VPN and Cisco ISE/NAC remote access environments.
• Implement firewall solutions in AWS with auto-scaling architecture.
• Troubleshoot complex security issues, drive root-cause analysis and platform hardening.

Skills

Palo Alto

Cisco FTD

Fortinet

Radware

VPN & ISE

Python scripting

Network monitoring

Cloud security

DDoS protection

Firewall management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SolarWinds

LiveNX

ELK

AWS

Azure

Job description

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. is seeking an AVP Tech Network Engineer, Security to design, engineer, and operate advanced network security solutions for clients and advisors.

The role emphasizes hands-on security hardening, cloud deployments in AWS/Azure, and integration tooling. Hybrid work is supported with travel up to 10%. A strong collaboration mindset and industry certifications are valued.