VP, Cloud Security Operations

LPL Financial Holdings, Inc.$154K — $257K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in cybersecurity engineering or related fields
  • 5+ years leading large-scale security engineering projects
  • 5+ years with enterprise security technologies like SIEM and EDR/XDR
  • 2+ years in cloud telemetry engineering and log optimization
  • 2+ years in designing cross-platform integrations
  • Experience with automation development using Python or PowerShell

Responsibilities

  • Serve as an engineering lead to enhance security technology integration
  • Collaborate with platform teams to improve security readiness and logging
  • Conduct mapping and analysis to identify security capability gaps
  • Develop strategies for interoperability across security platforms
  • Optimize detection and logging mechanisms for better data quality
  • Implement redundancy strategies for cloud security resilience
  • Drive automation initiatives to enhance operational consistency

Benefits

  • 401K matching
  • Health benefits
  • Employee stock options
  • Paid time off
  • Volunteer time off
Full Job Description
Job Overview:

LPL's Security Architecture & Engineering organization is seeking a highly skilled and technically focused individual contributor to drive the integration, optimization, interoperability, and cloud operational effectiveness of enterprise security technologies.

This role serves as a technical leader responsible for ensuring enterprise security technologies are engineered, integrated, optimized, and operationally aligned across cloud and enterprise environments. The position operates as a strategic integration lead across multiple engineering teams supporting capabilities such as EDR, Email Security, SIEM, Log Management, Secure Browser, CNAPP platforms, IDS/IPS, DLP, WAF, Firewalls, and AI Security technologies.

The role focuses on advancing cloud and enterprise security readiness through platform integration, telemetry optimization, detection alignment, logging strategy, automation engineering, and interoperability across the broader security ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a cross-functional engineering lead responsible for improving interoperability, integration, and cloud operational effectiveness across enterprise security technologies.
  • Partner with platform engineering teams to improve platform integration, telemetry quality, logging consistency, detection coverage, automation capabilities, operational scalability, and overall cloud security readiness.
  • Work across a broad security technology stack including endpoint detection and response (EDR), email security platforms, SIEM and log management systems, secure browser technologies, cloud security platforms, IDS/IPS, DLP, WAF, firewalls, and AI security and automation platforms.
  • Perform cloud security capability mapping and cross-platform gap analysis to identify visibility gaps, detection gaps, telemetry deficiencies, redundant tooling, integration weaknesses, logging inefficiencies, and automation opportunities.
  • Develop engineering strategies that enhance interoperability and readiness across cloud and enterprise security platforms.
  • Optimize SIEM ingestion pipelines, cloud logging strategies, event normalization, telemetry enrichment, and routing mechanisms to improve detection fidelity, signal-to-noise ratio, data quality, cost efficiency, visibility, and platform scalability.
  • Build redundancy strategies across cloud and enterprise security controls to increase resiliency and reduce single points of failure.
  • Ensure security tooling integrations are validated, optimized, and aligned with enterprise cloud security engineering standards and best practices.
  • Drive automation initiatives to reduce engineering maintenance overhead and improve operational consistency across security platforms.
  • Coordinate technical initiatives across AI Engineering, Log Management Engineering, Security Platform Engineering, and Engineering Systems Maintenance to ensure alignment and execution.
  • Develop enterprise engineering standards and integration patterns for telemetry, logging architectures, event normalization, alert enrichment, automation workflows, and platform interoperability.
  • Partner with Security Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, and Cloud Engineering teams to align solutions with enterprise operational security requirements.
  • Develop and maintain automation tooling using Python, PowerShell, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and orchestration platforms.
  • Lead technical assessments and onboarding of new cloud security technologies, integrations, and engineering enhancements.
  • Ensure alignment of cloud security technologies with regulatory, audit, governance, and operational requirements.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance across platform integration, optimization initiatives, and engineering strategy execution.
  • Communicate integration strategy, engineering priorities, and optimization roadmaps to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Maintain awareness of emerging technologies including AI-driven security, telemetry engineering practices, detection engineering advancements, and integration methodologies.
  • Drive engineering simplification and operational efficiency through consolidation, automation, telemetry optimization, and integration standardization.


What We're Looking For

We are seeking a highly analytical and technically strong individual contributor with deep experience in cloud security engineering, telemetry engineering, SIEM optimization, and enterprise platform integration. The ideal candidate brings strong problem-solving ability, technical depth, and the ability to drive complex engineering initiatives across independently managed domains.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, cloud security engineering, security architecture, or enterprise security operations
  • 5+ years of experience leading or coordinating large-scale security engineering initiatives across multiple domains
  • 5+ years of experience with enterprise security technologies including SIEM, EDR/XDR, log management, email security, DLP, IDS/IPS, WAF, firewalls, and cloud security platforms
  • 2+ years of experience in cloud telemetry engineering, event normalization, log pipeline optimization, and SIEM ingestion strategies
  • 2+ years of experience designing and optimizing cross-platform integrations and interoperability frameworks
  • Experience developing automation workflows using Python, PowerShell, Go, APIs, or orchestration frameworks


Core Competencies:

  • Strong understanding of detection engineering, telemetry analysis, cloud logging architectures, and security analytics principles
  • Experience improving operational readiness and integration maturity across enterprise security platforms
  • Experience working in regulated enterprise environments, preferably within financial services
  • Experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure security architectures
  • Strong understanding of cloud security engineering best practices, integration methodologies, and platform engineering strategies
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable outcomes


Preferences:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field
  • Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, or AWS Security Specialty
  • Experience with AI-assisted engineering and automation platforms
  • Experience with SOAR platforms and orchestration technologies
  • Familiarity with data engineering, telemetry pipelines, observability frameworks, and security analytics platforms
  • Experience optimizing cloud logging costs and SIEM efficiency models
  • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional platform consolidation and engineering optimization initiatives
  • Experience implementing automation-first engineering strategies and infrastructure-as-code practices


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Pay Range:
$154,706.00 - $257,912.00
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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

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