AVP DevOps Engineer

LPL Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
Austin, TXFort Mill, SC
Salary
$118,141–$196,833 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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This role pays less than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$187,437 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $157k versus about $157k for comparable roles.

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About LPL Financial

LPL Financial is the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States, providing brokerage and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors and financial institutions. Industry: Financial Services & Wealth Management

LPL Financial currently has 110 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $124,886–$208,177 across 56 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · AVP DevOps Engineer

The AVP, DevOps Engineer will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers to build and operate an AI-driven observability and reliability platform for enterprise-scale environments. This leader will define the strategic roadmap for monitoring, establishing reliability standards like SLOs and error budgets while driving the adoption of modern reliability engineering practices. Daily responsibilities include overseeing the analysis of logs, metrics, and traces to implement dynamic alerting frameworks and self-healing capabilities. The role requires expertise in Dynatrace, OTEL, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in Python, Go, and Java to drive automation and Infrastructure as Code. The position solves complex technical problems regarding service resilience, predictive monitoring, and incident correlation within mission-critical distributed systems.

What does a DevOps Engineer earn?

Median $130000 from 93 postings across 25 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers focused on observability and automation.
  • Define and execute the strategic roadmap for enterprise observability and AI-driven reliability engineering.
  • Establish and govern reliability standards including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and operational readiness.
  • Drive the adoption of Dynatrace and other OTEL solutions for logs, metrics, and traces.
  • Oversee the implementation of AI/ML capabilities for predictive monitoring, anomaly detection, and alert optimization.
  • Lead major incident management processes and conduct post-incident reviews to reduce MTTR and operational toil.
  • Champion self-healing and intelligent automation strategies to ensure scalable and secure remediation.
  • Drive Infrastructure-as-Code adoption to improve system reliability across cloud and on-premises environments.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Production Operations.
  • 3+ years of engineering leadership experience managing SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Operations teams.
  • 7+ years of experience leading automation initiatives using programming and scripting languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
  • 7+ years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Kubernetes, container platforms, and modern CI/CD practices.
  • 2+ years of experience with AI/ML-driven operational use cases, including anomaly detection and predictive monitoring.
  • Deep knowledge of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, availability, and resiliency.
  • Expertise in enterprise monitoring, Dynatrace, logging, metrics, tracing, and AIOps.
  • Strong experience in incident and crisis management, root cause analysis, and operational governance.

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