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Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.
Job Overview:
The Senior Engineer, Observability and Platform Stability is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise observability platforms and supporting applications. This role drives operational excellence through proactive monitoring, incident response, platform maintenance, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives. The position partners closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, DevOps, Operations, and Incident Management teams to enhance platform stability, mature CI/CD practices, and support strategic technology initiatives. The ideal candidate brings strong cloud technology experience and a proven ability to support production environments while delivering actionable insights through observability capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Delivery Support
Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams to provide operational and release support for technology initiatives.
Ensure platform changes meet operational readiness requirements, including rollback procedures, runbook documentation, integration standards, and support handoffs.
Maintain production stability throughout platform upgrades, enhancements, and enterprise initiatives.
Support platform ownership transitions and operational readiness activities across global delivery teams.
Production Support & Incident Response
Troubleshoot application and platform issues to restore services and minimize business impact.
Serve as an escalation point for complex production incidents and operational challenges.
Participate in incident triage, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and resolution activities.
Collaborate with engineering teams to implement long-term solutions that reduce recurring incidents.
Support mission-critical environments through timely incident response and service restoration.
Platform Stability & Proactive Operations
Conduct health checks, configuration reviews, and performance assessments to identify operational risks.
Support reliability initiatives focused on improving recovery times, reducing incident recurrence, and minimizing change-related defects.
Validate vendor releases, hotfixes, and configuration changes prior to production deployment.
Partner with observability and analytics teams to enhance monitoring, alerting, and issue detection capabilities.
Release Execution & CI/CD Maturation
Execute platform changes through established SDLC, change management, and release management processes.
Collaborate with Platform Engineering, DevOps, Quality Engineering, and Scrum teams to improve release and deployment practices.
Support the adoption of source control, environment separation, release automation, and CI/CD capabilities.
Ensure solutions are testable, deployable, and operationally supported before and after production implementation.
Documentation & Operational Excellence
Maintain runbooks, support documentation, configuration records, incident playbooks, and release procedures.
Document incident findings, lessons learned, and process improvement opportunities.
Contribute to the development of standardized, repeatable, and scalable operational practices.
What are we looking for?
We seek professionals who pursue greatness, act with integrity, are driven to help our clients succeed, win together, and create and share joy. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise in observability platforms, site reliability engineering, production support, release management, and operational excellence while demonstrating a commitment to platform reliability, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
6+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, production support, enterprise application operations, or related technology environments.
5+ years of experience supporting enterprise platforms, including AWS, Dynatrace, ELK, ServiceNow, and SolarWinds.
Experience troubleshooting complex production incidents within enterprise-scale technology environments.
Experience executing technology changes through formal change management and release management processes.
Preferences:
Experience within financial services or another regulated industry.
Experience implementing or supporting CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment processes across development, testing, and production environments.
Experience with observability platforms, monitoring tools, performance dashboards, or application monitoring solutions.
Experience collaborating with offshore, nearshore, or global delivery teams.
Pay Range:
$101,558.00 - $169,229.00Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
Company Overview:
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.
At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.
Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.
Information on Interviews:
LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.
EAC 5.19.26
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- 6+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, production support, enterprise application operations, or related technology environments
- 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise platforms, including AWS, Dynatrace, ELK, ServiceNow, and SolarWinds
- Experience troubleshooting complex production incidents within enterprise-scale technology environments
- Experience executing technology changes through formal change management and release management processes
- Experience within financial services or another regulated industry
- Experience implementing or supporting CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment processes across development, testing, and production environments
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring tools, performance dashboards, or application monitoring solutions
- Experience collaborating with offshore, nearshore, or global delivery teams
LPL Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about LPL Financial and has not been reviewed or approved by LPL Financial.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a company 401(k) match that is frequently highlighted as a strong component of total rewards. Feedback suggests these features meaningfully enhance long‑term financial value.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan with a meaningful discount and lookback is highlighted as accessible ownership. Feedback suggests the plan adds tangible upside beyond base salary.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave has been expanded alongside family‑building and adoption support. Feedback suggests these benefits compare well to large‑employer standards.
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What We Do
Financial advice is changing, and at LPL Financial, we’re at the forefront. We’re building a future where advisors can—with no friction or complexity, as simple as turning the dials—pick the business model, services, technology, and product mix that best meet their clients’ needs. With one platform, one sign-on, and one team to call, you can take your business anywhere you want it to go. There are no limits to your growth, and we’ll partner with you every step of the way. Your greatness is our goal. LPL Financial is a leader in the retail financial advice market and the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer*. We serve independent financial advisors and financial institutions, providing them with the technology, research, clearing and compliance services, and practice management programs they need to create and grow thriving practices. LPL enables them to provide objective guidance to millions of American families seeking wealth management, retirement planning, financial planning and asset management solutions. LPL.com Securities and Advisory Services offered through LPL Financial. A registered investment advisor, Member FINRA/SIPC.
