VP, Container Engineering

LPL Financial

VP of Container Engineering at LPL Financial overseeing the container platform strategy and operations. Leading a global team while focusing on cost efficiency and platform stability.

Posted 7/29/2026full-timeAustin • North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $149,350 - $248,848 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in leading container platform strategies and operations, particularly with Amazon EKS, while ensuring cost efficiency and platform stability. Proven ability to manage and mentor engineering teams, drive architectural decisions, and implement best practices in cloud infrastructure.

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Amazon EKS OperationsTerraform DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure Leadership24x7 On-Call ManagementCost Efficiency Strategies

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Hard Skills

Cloud InfrastructurePlatform EngineeringContainer StrategyCI/CD IntegrationGitOpsSRE PracticesCapacity PlanningError BudgetsTerraformHelm

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipMentoringPerformance ManagementCommunicationCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

Amazon EKSTerraform CloudGitHub ActionsKarpenterKubecostArgoCDFluxInternal Developer PlatformAgile/ScrumAWS Well-Architected Framework

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceEngineering or Related Discipline

Industry Keywords

Financial ServicesMulti-Account Landing ZoneSecurity-Conscious EnvironmentRegulated EnvironmentOperational Excellence

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudFluxOpenShiftTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the Containers team in CCOE: own the strategy, architecture, implementation, and operations of LPL's container platform — primarily Amazon EKS — across the multi-account landing zone
Set the multi-year container strategy: cluster topology, multi-tenancy, upgrade cadence, supported add-ons, ingress, service mesh (where applicable), GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), and CI/CD integration
Partner closely with the FinOps pod (within Foundations) to drive container cost efficiency: Karpenter, Spot, right-sizing, namespace chargeback, Kubecost or equivalent, cost-anomaly detection, and platform-level FinOps guardrails
Drive platform stability, reliability, and SRE practices: SLOs, golden signals, error budgets, capacity planning, controlled upgrades, and blast-radius reduction
Deliver a self-service container experience for application teams: opinionated Terraform/Helm modules, golden paths, scaffolding, namespace vending, RBAC automation, and Internal Developer Platform (Backstage-class) integration
Co-own multi-account landing zone integration for containers in partnership with the Network Engineering, Security & Governance, FinOps, and Functional Design Engineering & Strategy pods within Foundations (IRSA, Pod Identity, network policy, Network Firewall integration, image signing, runtime defense)
Lead the evaluation, design, and (if approved) operationalization of additional workload runtimes: ECS as a workload-migration target for cost and operational simplicity, and potential support for OpenShift on-premises as a hybrid runtime
Embed agentic AI capabilities into the team's engineering practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Bedrock, MCP servers, agentic IaC and review workflows) and into the platform's self-service experience for internal customers
Embed agentic AI capabilities into the container platform and developer workflow: AI-assisted manifest generation, automated upgrade impact analysis, copilots for cluster operators, and MCP-backed agents for self-service
Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain a globally distributed team of senior cloud engineers across LPL's US offices and India Global Capability Center (GCC)
Own all people-management responsibilities for the pod including hiring, onboarding, weekly 1:1s, performance management, compensation planning, career development, and certification-path execution per the CCOE certification matrix
Operate as a player-coach: spend meaningful time hands-on in Terraform code, design reviews, peer reviews, and incident response while leading people and delivery
Lead and personally participate in 24x7 on-call rotations as senior incident commander and technical escalation point for the pod
Partner with peer VPs across the Cloud Center of Excellence — the leaders of the five CCOE teams (Foundations, Platforms, Containers, Support, Delivery) and the leaders of the pods within Foundations (Security & Governance, FinOps, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring) — to align roadmaps and remove cross-team and cross-pod blockers
Champion AWS Well-Architected Framework adoption across all six pillars and drive continuous improvement against operational, security, reliability, performance, cost, and sustainability outcomes
Contribute to and curate the private Terraform module library that powers self-service infrastructure for application teams, including module standards, versioning, deprecation, and contribution patterns
Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, standups, backlog grooming, retrospectives) and partner with the RTE and PMO on delivery commitments and dependencies
Represent the pod in executive forums, architecture review boards, internal audit, and customer engagements; communicate technical risk and trade-offs to non-technical executives

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of progressive technical experience including 5+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering leadership; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent work experience)
5+ years of hands-on production AWS at scale in a multi-account landing zone, with 4+ years of authoring production Terraform in a private module ecosystem delivered through Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions
1+ year experience as a direct people manager or Technical team lead of engineering teams of 5+ engineers, including hiring, performance management, compensation, and difficult personnel decisions
5+ years experience leading and personally participating in 24x7 production on-call rotations in a fast-paced, security-conscious, regulated environment (financial services strongly preferred)
4+ years of operating Amazon EKS at scale in production (multi-cluster, multi-account, regular controlled upgrades) with Terraform and Helm, in active partnership with a FinOps function

Benefits

Comp & perks

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