VP, Container Engineering

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Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our, employees. If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what’s possible, LPL*** invites you to apply today.

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• At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights.
• We run Amazon EKS across a multi-account landing zone, partner with FinOps to make every node count, and deliver a paved-road, self-service experience that gets application teams to production safely and quickly.
• You partner closely with the FinOps pod (within Foundations) to make EKS more cost-effective while improving stability, and you deliver a paved-road, self-service experience for application teams.
• 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
• Core Competencies:
• Pragmatic technology selection: chooses the right runtime (EKS, ECS, or OpenShift) for the workload and the constraints, rather than defaulting to one answer
• Strong cost-ownership instincts paired with deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and IaC
• Player-coach who is comfortable in code reviews, architecture sessions, and people 1:1s in the same day
• Continuous learner, especially in cloud-native, IaC, platform engineering, and applied AI

Responsibilities

• 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
• Drive platform stability, reliability, and SRE practices: SLOs, golden signals, error budgets, capacity planning, controlled upgrades, and blast-radius reduction
• 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
• 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
• 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

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