Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Fort Mill, SC Duration: 12 months

Job Overview: The Cloud Engineer leads development of cloud services and platform solutions needed to host business-critical applications that differentiate LPL in the market. This is a hands-on, technical lead role in the I&O organization that will architect and develop cloud-native services to support LPL's overall cloud strategy and migration to AWS.

Responsibilities:

• Lead research, design, architecture, development of enterprise services on AWS Landing Zone (ALZ) including EC2, S3, EKS, ELB, RDS, R53, Lambda, Glue, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudFront utilizing SaaS/IaaS/ PaaS solutions
• Builds IaC solutions adhering to DevSecOps best practices utilizing Terraform and other tools such as Git, Ansible and CloudFormation
• Build scalable, resilient solutions and ensure proper instrumentation is in place for overall observability of platforms and services through CloudWatch, ELK, and Dynatrace adhering to AWS Well Architected Framework
• Code / Implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery allowing teams to build and own end-to-end applications and services in the cloud
• Develop preventative and detective security guardrails to support self-service ecosystem using tools such as Terraform Cloud Sentinel policies and AWS config
• Participate in Kanban delivery model to deliver sprint releases through stories/epics utilizing Jira to track all development work and track overall velocity
• Accountable for site reliability engineering (SRE) activities to build highly available and scalable solutions and ensure high availability with observability of platforms/services
• Serve as a subject matter expert to design, administer, and support the security of infrastructure and enterprise hosting platforms
• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, and Securit

What are we looking for?

• We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of designing and deploying infrastructure utilizing common AWS services e.g. EC2, S3, EKS, ELB, RDS, R53, Lambda, Glue, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudFront
• Experience designing and automating VPC solutions across AWS networking services (Direct Connect, VPC Endpoints, PrivateLink, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway)
• Proven track record architecting/building serverless solutions in AWS LZ via CI/CD pipelines (Lambda, Glue, API Gateway, DynamoDB)
• Proven track record building Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions adhering to DevSecOps best practices utilizing tools such as Git, Ansible, Terraform into AWS Landing Zone
• Experience with AWS Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), enabling IT with self-service capabilities for account vending and pipeline deployments

Core Competencies:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong executive presence
• Experience working and leading in matrixed, fast paced environments
• Continuous learner especially in emerging areas of technology, modern work practices and digital transformation
• Extensive experience working in large technology ecosystems with emphasis on integrating multiple high scale, high volume, always-on mission-critical systems

Preferences:

• Cloud migration experience
• Software development: Python, .NET
• AWS Solutions Architect - Professional (Preferred)
• AWS DevOps Engineer (Preferred)
• Ansible / Puppet / Terraform Certification (Preferred)
• Experience with open telemetry including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, AWS Distro