VP, Azure Cloud & Platform Engineering

lplfinancial; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking a Vice President of Cloud Compute - Microsoft Azure to lead the Azure strategy and cloud-adoption program. You will manage a team of Senior Cloud Engineers and partner with application, architecture, cybersecurity, finance, risk, and infrastructure leaders to accelerate cloud adoption.

Focus areas include landing zones, governance, automation, and cost controls, with emphasis on secure, scalable, and reliable cloud services aligned to business priorities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading enterprise Azure/cloud programs.
• 5+ years Azure architecture across compute, storage, networking, containers, platform services, monitoring, and resiliency.
• 5+ years designing Azure landing zones and implementing cloud governance using Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC, tagging, and cost-management controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise Microsoft Azure strategy, roadmap, and cloud-adoption program.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Senior Cloud Engineers.
• Partner with application and business teams to assess workloads and create cloud migration and modernization plans.
• Establish Azure landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, policies, access controls, tagging, and governance standards.
• Drive an automation-first approach using infrastructure as code, reusable deployment patterns, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead the development of self-service cloud capabilities that allow teams to deploy approved Azure services efficiently.
• Oversee Azure compute, storage, networking, containers, platform services, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Promote cloud-native architectures, managed services, containers, serverless technologies, and modern application patterns.
• Lead the adoption of Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, AIOps, and intelligent automation to improve engineering productivity and operational support.
• Partner with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to ensure Azure solutions meet security, regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements.
• Establish FinOps practices for cloud forecasting, cost allocation, consumption reporting, rightsizing, and optimization.
• Use Jira to manage engineering backlogs, roadmaps, epics, priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Use ServiceNow to support cloud requests, incidents, problems, changes, configuration management, and service delivery workflows.
• Define and report cloud-adoption metrics, delivery progress, platform health, cost trends, risks, and business outcomes.
• Evaluate new Azure services and technology products that improve cloud adoption, reliability, automation, and client experience.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for Azure platform, cloud engineering, and adoption-related issues.
• Maintain strategic relationships with Microsoft and other cloud technology partners.

Skills

Azure architecture

Leadership / people management

Cloud governance

FinOps

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking a Vice President of Cloud Compute - Microsoft Azure to lead the Azure strategy and cloud-adoption program. You will manage a team of Senior Cloud Engineers and partner with application, architecture, cybersecurity, finance, risk, and infrastructure leaders to accelerate cloud adoption.

Focus areas include landing zones, governance, automation, and cost controls, with emphasis on secure, scalable, and reliable cloud services aligned to business priorities.