LPL Financial

VP, SRE, Observability Engineering

LPL Financial

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Fort MillNew YorkTexasUnited 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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