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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
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Listed pay typically runs
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Senior Engineer, Reliability joins the team to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise observability platforms and supporting applications. This role focuses on driving operational excellence through proactive monitoring, incident response, platform maintenance, and automation while maturing CI/CD practices. The individual will partner with Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, and DevOps teams to manage production stability, perform root cause analysis for complex incidents, and conduct configuration reviews to mitigate risks. Key responsibilities include executing technology changes through formal release management processes and maintaining detailed runbooks and documentation. The role requires expertise in AWS, Dynatrace, ELK, ServiceNow, and SolarWinds. Candidates must possess skills in site reliability engineering, production support, and observability platforms to solve challenges within enterprise-scale environments, specifically focusing on improving recovery times and reducing incident recurrence across global delivery teams.
What does a Engineer earn in Texas?
Median $172500 from 39 postings across 11 companies.
Troubleshoot application and platform issues to restore services and minimize business impact during production incidents.
Perform root cause analysis and develop corrective action plans to reduce recurring technical issues.
Conduct health checks, configuration reviews, and performance assessments to identify and mitigate operational risks.
Partner with observability teams to enhance monitoring, alerting, and automated issue detection capabilities.
Execute platform changes through established SDLC, change management, and release management processes.
Improve CI/CD practices by supporting source control, environment separation, and release automation.
Maintain runbooks, incident playbooks, and technical documentation for all production systems and procedures.
Validate vendor releases, hotfixes, and configuration changes before they are deployed to production environments.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
6+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, production support, enterprise application operations, or related technology environments.
5+ years of experience supporting enterprise platforms including AWS, Dynatrace, ELK, ServiceNow, and SolarWinds.
Experience troubleshooting complex production incidents within enterprise-scale technology environments.
Experience executing technology changes through formal change management and release management processes.
Experience within financial services or another regulated industry (preferred).
Experience implementing or supporting CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment processes across development, testing, and production environments (preferred).
Experience with observability platforms, monitoring tools, performance dashboards, or application monitoring solutions (preferred).