VP, Cloud Platform Engineering & Automation

LPL Financial; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 187,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial in Fort Mill, SC is seeking the VP, Cloud Engineering & Automation to lead an engineering organization responsible for enterprise cloud platform engineering and infrastructure automation. You will shape the platform strategy to enable cloud-native designs and accelerate cloud adoption to support business objectives.

You will drive a secure, scalable, automated cloud platform, oversee AWS Landing Zone implementations, and promote DevOps, LEAN principles, and FinOps across the team.

Qualifications

• 10 years of software engineering leadership in scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Progressive leadership experience building/leading engineering teams in a large, global financial institution.
• Demonstrated leadership in architecting/developing/transformation of cloud platforms and services (migrations & native implementations).
• Proven experience with AWS Landing Zone and Account Vending Machine to accelerate time to market.
• Proven track record of infrastructure transformation with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
• Experience leading teams using Agile/LEAN/DevOps/SRE to deliver platforms/services.
• Proven experience with cloud financial management (FinOps).
• Bachelor’s/Advanced degree and/or related field experience required.

Responsibilities

• Develop vision and strategy for a secure, scalable, automated cloud platform that enables self‑service delivery at scale.
• Lead research, design, architecture and development of enterprise services on AWS Landing Zone platform using Well‑Architected framework and IaC.
• Collaborate to drive a/framework to automate platform deployment and configuration management.
• Accelerate development of foundational cloud capabilities for rapid deployment of cloud apps and services.
• Collaborate with IT to execute a multi‑year automation strategy to simplify delivery and reduce hand‑offs.
• Lead cloud platform engineering transformation to support always‑on enterprise apps and services.

Skills

Cloud platform leadership

AWS

IaC

LEAN/DevOps/SRE

FinOps

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s/Advanced degree

Tools

AWS Landing Zone

Account Vending Machine

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

LPL Financial in Fort Mill, SC is seeking the VP, Cloud Engineering & Automation to lead an engineering organization responsible for enterprise cloud platform engineering and infrastructure automation. You will shape the platform strategy to enable cloud-native designs and accelerate cloud adoption to support business objectives.

You will drive a secure, scalable, automated cloud platform, oversee AWS Landing Zone implementations, and promote DevOps, LEAN principles, and FinOps across the team.