New Grad 2026 - Technology, Infrastructure & Operations

LPL Financial•San Diego, CA

19h•$41 - $45•Hybrid

About The Position

What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? As the nation's largest independent broker-dealer firm and a member of the Fortune 500, we're swiftly evolving into a high-performance fintech organization. Joining us as a technologist puts you at the heart of this transformation. With locations in Austin, Charlotte, and San Diego, our team of dedicated professionals supports financial advisors in enhancing their clients' financial futures. Your work will revolutionize our support for financial advisors and make a difference to millions of lives. If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial. Job Overview: Our Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams at LPL Financial designs, builds, and maintains the technology systems that power the company. This includes everything from cloud platforms and data centers to networks and enterprise applications. Their job is to make sure these systems are secure, scalable, and always available. They use automation, monitoring tools, and incident response strategies to keep things running smoothly and support continuous software delivery with minimal downtime. If you're starting your career in tech, I&O offers a great opportunity to work with large-scale systems and modern tools. You might help build infrastructure using code, optimize cloud services, monitor system performance, or support platform engineering projects. These roles give you hands-on experience with tools like AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and more—while making a real impact on the reliability and performance of LPL’s technology. This position would like the ideal candidate to be local to the Fort Mill and San Diego offices functioning off a hybrid schedule at the manager’s discretion. Opportunities: As an Infrastructure Platform Engineer, you’ll work with both production and non-production systems across cloud and on-prem environments. You’ll use software engineering principles to automate tasks, improve system reliability and scalability, and solve technical problems before they affect users. You’ll be responsible for the infrastructure that supports key products, making sure it’s secure, resilient, and aligned with business needs. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building and maintaining systems using tools like Terraform, monitoring platforms, and cloud services. As a Tech Support Analyst, your main job is to help LPL employees with their IT needs—whether that’s fixing issues, answering questions, or helping them get set up with new tools. You’ll communicate across channels like phone, chat, and email to resolve problems quickly and professionally. You’ll also support broader IT initiatives, like onboarding new hires, encouraging adoption of new technologies, and helping build a knowledge base that will support future automation and AI-driven support. It’s a great role for someone who enjoys problem-solving and working directly with users. As a Systems Engineer, you’ll manage cloud and on-prem systems that support LPL’s technology platforms. You’ll take an engineering-first approach to operations—automating workflows, improving performance, and ensuring systems are secure and resilient. You’ll be responsible for identifying and fixing issues, deploying infrastructure using code, and optimizing how systems run. This role is a great fit for someone who wants to work on distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise-scale infrastructure.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or advanced degree in Computer Science, or related field required
Classroom experience directly related to your preferred role
Experiences such as an internship, hackathon, research project or related experience
Demonstrated proactive approach to problem solving and task completion, taking ownership of assignments
Proficient organizational and communication skills, both oral and written
Demonstrated time management skills
Strong intellectual curiosity and willingness to embrace change and quickly learn new technologies and frameworks as the software landscape evolves
In order to be eligible, candidates must have an expected graduation date between May 2025 and June 2026

Nice To Haves

Good understanding of at least one programming language (i.e C++ or Java)
Good understanding of networking technology (i.e. Routers, Switches)
Basic understanding of cloud concepts (i.e AWS, Azure or GCP)
Ability to work independently and collaborate with team

Responsibilities

Automate tasks
Improve system reliability and scalability
Solve technical problems before they affect users
Help LPL employees with their IT needs
Fix issues
Answer questions
Help employees get set up with new tools
Communicate across channels like phone, chat, and email to resolve problems quickly and professionally
Support broader IT initiatives, like onboarding new hires, encouraging adoption of new technologies, and helping build a knowledge base that will support future automation and AI-driven support
Automating workflows
Improving performance
Ensuring systems are secure and resilient
Identifying and fixing issues
Deploying infrastructure using code
Optimizing how systems run