
VP, SRE, Observability Engineering
LPL Financial
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Fort Mill • New York • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $132,793 - $221,321 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop and maintain a multi‑year observability architecture roadmap aligned with enterprise modernization initiatives.
- Define the target state for observability platforms, data pipelines, and telemetry strategy.
- Align observability and reliability insights with business outcomes, performance requirements, and operational KPIs.
- Establish a unified architectural vision for cross-domain observability, automation, and intelligent insights (AIOps).
- Create comprehensive observability standards and patterns by platform, tech stack, and integration type.
- Work with the observability architect to define and build telemetry quality frameworks, log pipelines, cardinality, data governance, PII handling, and access controls.
- Establish and build standards for SLO/SLI definitions, alerting best practices, and error-budget-driven improvement.
- Review major incidents, identify observability gaps, and evolve architecture and tooling.
- Design and build end‑to‑end observability patterns across UI, RUM, metrics, traces, logs, enrichment, routing, and retention.
- Provide guidance and build reusable assets (templates, SDKs, reliability/observability-as-code patterns).
- Enable frictionless onboarding and self-service integrations into telemetry pipelines and dashboards.
- Coach and empower development teams on instrumentation, traceability, event modeling, and dependency mapping.
- Define observability and reliability approaches for major initiatives, including data center migrations, cloud modernization, platform consolidation, and M&A/partner integrations.
- Build, lead and empower a high performing team of observability engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of enterprise SRE experience
- 5+ years of observability tooling and related ecosystem (Open Telemetry, Dynatrace, ELK, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, etc.)
- 2+ years designing logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting pipelines.
- SRE principles, reliability patterns, AIOps, and event correlation strategies.
- Experience defining enterprise-level telemetry and resilience standards.
Benefits
- 401K matching
- health benefits
- employee stock options
- paid time off
- volunteer time off
- and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
observability architecturedata pipelinestelemetry strategySLO definitionsSLI definitionsalerting best practiceserror-budget-driven improvementevent modelingdependency mappinglogging pipelines
Soft Skills
coachingempowermentguidanceleadershipteam building