SRE Engineer

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LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader* in the markets we serve, supporting more than 22,000 financial advisors, 1,100 institution-based investment programs, and 500 independent RIA firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-centered model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial advisor. At LPL, independence means that advisors have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run their perfect practice. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

Job Overview:

The TOPS SRE team serves as a centralized application escalation group for internal help desks, product/development, and infrastructure operational teams. We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join our Technology team. You will be working as part of a cross-functional product team to create elegant solutions to highly complex and intricate business challenges.

Responsibilities:

Ensure that production applications which team supports are stable, reliable and well documented.

Own end to end availability and performance of mission critical services.

Help define SLIs and SLOs for individual software components of our tech stack

Analyze system architectures to identify single points of failure and other areas that may present a resiliency deficiency.

Provide proactive technical recommendations for system performance measurement and analysis, scalable architecture and profiling/troubleshooting techniques

Integrate Chaos engineering with CI/CD process.

Executing Game Days on mission critical applications.

Implement resilience engineering best practices - chaos engineering, fault injection, and failover for HA

Identification of top errors, reliability issues and driving root cause to avoid repeat of incidents.

Ability to analyze and debug complex issue across tiers from frontend to mid-tier to infrastructure

Develop Automation Tools and Frameworks for provisioning, config management, monitoring and deployment to streamline operations and improve reliability

Requirements:

8+ years of experience handling high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures, cloud DevOps (Kubernetes)

Programming experience (.Net/Angular JS/Python/Go/shell) and hands on experience with monitoring and logging tools (e. g. Dynatrace, Datadog, ELK, Grafana, Honeycomb) and any Chaos tool (Litmus, Gremlin, Chaos monkey, and ChaosBlade).

Good knowledge of web technologies, databases and public cloud systems like AWS, Networking, System.

Experienced with variety of tools that help manage, understand, and debug large, complex distributed systems.

Experience with SQL databases - querying, profiling and performance tuning and troubleshooting issues and bugs.

Preferences:

Prior SRE/DevOps experience desirable.

Preferred prior experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

Core Competencies:

Adapt to rapidly growing environments and advise\recommend required system enhancements and maintenance.

Cross collaborate with multiple teams like middleware, infrastructure and application development teams, in providing both short-term and long-term resolutions.

Ability to influence others to adopt a new perspective and manage interpersonal issues with tact and diplomacy.

Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences, with a keen attention to detail

Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and implement best practices to improve products, processes, or services.

Capable of effectively organizing, prioritizing, and executing tasks utilizing resources and tools

Ability to identify issue proactively rather reacting to a problem.

Ability to create positive professional relationships across various technology groups.

Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle and willing to adapt to LPL’s SDLC process.

Mindset to identify and explore chaotic situations and conduct formalized experiments.

Pay Range: $96,160-$144,240/year

Actual 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!

Why LPL?

At LPL, we believe that objective financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services. We provide you with a work environment that encourages your creativity and growth, a leadership team that is supportive and responsive, and the opportunity to create a career that has no limits, only amazing potential.

We are one team on one mission. We take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. We are committed to supporting workplace equality, and we embrace the different perspectives and backgrounds of our employees. We also care for our communities, and we encourage our employees to do the same. This creates an environment in which you can do your best work.

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