Senior Systems Engineer - Virtualization

Senior System Engineer

At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. This Senior System Engineer will possess technical expertise and engineering skills and is considered a leading subject matter expert for designing technical infrastructure solutions involving server hardware, hypervisors, VMs, DR, SRM, and cloud solutions, with general knowledge of Storage and Networking. This individual is a thought leader and driver of change who must be able to work in a fast-paced, start-up-like environment, facilitate implementation, and influence the adoption of new processes and tools.

Responsibilities:

• VMware Infrastructure Management: Responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining VMware virtualization infrastructure, including vSphere, ESXi hosts, and vCenter Server.
• Virtualization Deployment: Plan and execute virtualization projects, including server consolidation, migration, DVS, sDRS technologies.
• Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Identify and resolve issues related to VMware infrastructure, including performance bottlenecks, connectivity problems, and virtual machine (VM) failures.
• Capacity Planning: Monitor and analyze VMware infrastructure utilization, forecast resource requirements, and recommend upgrades or optimizations to ensure optimal performance and scalability.
• Security and Compliance: Implement and maintain security best practices and policies for VMware environments, including user access controls, network segmentation, and compliance with financial industry standards.
• SRM VMware Live Recovery and Disaster Recovery: Configure and manage backup solutions for VMware infrastructure, including regular backups, replication, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure business continuity.
• Patch Management and Upgrades: Plan and execute regular patching and upgrades for VMware software and related components, ensuring compatibility and minimizing downtime.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain documentation, including standard operating procedures, system configurations, troubleshooting guides, and provide knowledge sharing to other team members and stakeholders.
• Participates in the creation and maintenance of metrics and institutes a process for continuous improvement.
• Participates in Kanban delivery model to deliver sprint releases through stories/epics utilizing Jira to track all work.
• Participates in the virtualization on-call rotation as needed.

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:

• Over 5 years of experience working as a Systems Engineer
• 5+ years' experience with VMWare including VMWare vSphere, VMware ESXi 7/8, vCenter, vSAN, and vRealize Suite
• 3+ years of experience working with SRM, UCS Hardware, Cisco Vendors, etc.

Preferences:

• Experience with the following: VMC, PowerCLI, Cisco Networking – ACI, Data Center Migrations, ITIL, VMware Suite, Storage Methodologies, Strong scripting and automation knowledge, Service Now
• Agile Methodologies: Scrum/Kanban
• Compute Hardware: Cisco UCS, Lenovo Servers
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, VMC on AWS

Pay Range: $101,700-$169,500/year. Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.

Company Overview: LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace. LPL supports over 29,000 financial advisors and the wealth-management practices of 1,100 financial institution, servicing and custodying approximately $1.9 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 7 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life's aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

Information on Interviews: LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant's bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL's Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.