Principal Cloud Security

LPL Financial

Principal of Cloud Security overseeing enterprise-level security technologies at LPL Financial. Leading integration and optimization of cloud operational effectiveness across security platforms.

Posted 6/7/2026full-timeAustin • Arizona, California, New York, North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $154,706 - $257,912 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityFirewallsGoPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a cross-functional engineering lead responsible for improving interoperability, integration, and cloud operational effectiveness across enterprise security technologies.
Partner with platform engineering teams to improve platform integration, telemetry quality, logging consistency, detection coverage, automation capabilities, operational scalability, and overall cloud security readiness.
Work across a broad security technology stack including endpoint detection and response (EDR), email security platforms, SIEM and log management systems, secure browser technologies, cloud security platforms, IDS/IPS, DLP, WAF, firewalls, and AI security and automation platforms.
Perform cloud security capability mapping and cross-platform gap analysis to identify visibility gaps, detection gaps, telemetry deficiencies, redundant tooling, integration weaknesses, logging inefficiencies, and automation opportunities.
Develop engineering strategies that enhance interoperability and readiness across cloud and enterprise security platforms.
Optimize SIEM ingestion pipelines, cloud logging strategies, event normalization, telemetry enrichment, and routing mechanisms to improve detection fidelity, signal-to-noise ratio, data quality, cost efficiency, visibility, and platform scalability.
Build redundancy strategies across cloud and enterprise security controls to increase resiliency and reduce single points of failure.
Ensure security tooling integrations are validated, optimized, and aligned with enterprise cloud security engineering standards and best practices.
Drive automation initiatives to reduce engineering maintenance overhead and improve operational consistency across security platforms.
Coordinate technical initiatives across AI Engineering, Log Management Engineering, Security Platform Engineering, and Engineering Systems Maintenance to ensure alignment and execution.
Develop enterprise engineering standards and integration patterns for telemetry, logging architectures, event normalization, alert enrichment, automation workflows, and platform interoperability.
Partner with Security Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, and Cloud Engineering teams to align solutions with enterprise operational security requirements.
Develop and maintain automation tooling using Python, PowerShell, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and orchestration platforms.
Lead technical assessments and onboarding of new cloud security technologies, integrations, and engineering enhancements.
Ensure alignment of cloud security technologies with regulatory, audit, governance, and operational requirements.
Provide technical leadership and guidance across platform integration, optimization initiatives, and engineering strategy execution.
Communicate integration strategy, engineering priorities, and optimization roadmaps to stakeholders and leadership.
Maintain awareness of emerging technologies including AI-driven security, telemetry engineering practices, detection engineering advancements, and integration methodologies.
Drive engineering simplification and operational efficiency through consolidation, automation, telemetry optimization, and integration standardization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, cloud security engineering, security architecture, or enterprise security operations
5+ years of experience leading or coordinating large-scale security engineering initiatives across multiple domains
5+ years of experience with enterprise security technologies including SIEM, EDR/XDR, log management, email security, DLP, IDS/IPS, WAF, firewalls, and cloud security platforms
2+ years of experience in cloud telemetry engineering, event normalization, log pipeline optimization, and SIEM ingestion strategies
2+ years of experience designing and optimizing cross-platform integrations and interoperability frameworks
Experience developing automation workflows using Python, PowerShell, Go, APIs, or orchestration frameworks

Benefits

Comp & perks

401K matching
health benefits
employee stock options
paid time off
volunteer time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

cybersecurity engineeringcloud security engineeringsecurity architectureenterprise security operationsSIEMEDRlog managementemail securityDLPIDS/IPS

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcommunicationcollaborationstrategic planningproblem-solvingautomation initiativesoperational consistencystakeholder engagementcross-functional coordinationengineering strategy execution