AVP, Cloud Delivery Architect

LPL Financial•San Diego, CA

8d•$123,497 - $205,897

About The Position

Seeking an AVP Cloud Delivery Architect for LPL’s Infrastructure Solutions Architecture / Engineering organization. The Cloud Delivery Architect will possess technical expertise and engineering skills in AWS, which allows them to be considered a subject matter expert and lead for designing reliable, scalable, and secure AWS technical infrastructure solutions. This individual must be able to work in a fast paced, start up like environment, identify requirements and facilitate implementation, while following appropriate change control and release processes.

Requirements

5+ years of experience of cloud architecture design
5+ years hands on experience as an AWS subject matter expert deploying applications
5+ years of experience developing architecture diagrams and documentation
5+ years of experience developing / documenting build specifications using Excel
5+ years of designing, and developing utilizing common AWS services like EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, Any RDS, Streaming (Kafka), Messaging (SQS, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ), Caching (Redis, Ignite, Redshift, Elasticache), NO-SQL and API Gateway
Hands on Infrastructure as Code deployments using Terraform
Experience utilizing AWS AMI’s with Amazon Linux and Windows Server
Experience connecting On-Prem Active Directory with AWS services
Experience with AWS Network protocols and diagnosing connection-related issues
Firewalls Rule Management, Port Translation, Quality of Service, and Network Protocol Routing

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree
Certifications are a plus (AWS Solutions Architect)
Network Security Best Practices and Implementation across diverse technologies and hardware infrastructure.
SSL Certificate Requests, Installation and PKI Management
Technical Project Management experience a plus

Responsibilities

Collaborate with customers/project teams to understand business requirements and capture technical requirements necessary to produce an infrastructure design
Perform systems analysis and evaluations on existing application infrastructure to gain knowledge of the technologies and capabilities of the platform
Be a subject matter expert in AWS security; identity access management; users, roles, policies, permissions, etc.
Be a subject matter expert and be able to provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services: focusing on lambda, glue, RDS, step functions, etc.
Define and develop new cloud Reference Architectures
Participate in application roadmap planning with stakeholders, application teams and engineering groups
Contributes to policies, procedures, and standards
Collaborate with project team members as part of an agile well-formed team
Utilize Jira consistently to track work and provide project status and updates
Provide guidance and consultation on infrastructure deployments
Performs capacity workload modeling and availability analysis for a variety of platforms and environments.
Recommends changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability, and performance.
Promote and recommend opportunities for automation and efficiency gains
Participates in the creation and maintenance of delivery metrics
Execute on multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward