Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer

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Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview

LPL Financial is seeking a Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer to serve as a senior technical subject matter expert responsible for the design and engineering of resilient disaster recovery solutions across complex on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

This role goes beyond execution of established recovery procedures and provides technical leadership for DR architecture, engineering standards, automation, complex recovery testing, and remediation of recovery risks. The Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer will partner with architects and engineering teams to ensure critical technology solutions are recoverable and capable of meeting established RTO and RPO requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and engineering of complex disaster recovery solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Serve as a senior technical subject matter expert for disaster recovery architecture, engineering, automation, and recovery technologies.
• Design and implement recovery solutions incorporating replication, backup/recovery, virtualization, cloud resiliency, and recovery orchestration technologies.
• Lead complex DR exercises and technical recovery activities, including troubleshooting failures, identifying root causes, and driving remediation.
• Assess application and infrastructure architectures for recoverability and alignment with established RTO and RPO requirements.
• Develop engineering standards, reusable patterns, and technical best practices for resilient and recoverable solutions.
• Design and develop advanced automation using Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies to improve DR testing, orchestration, validation, and recovery.
• Partner with cloud, infrastructure, application, security, database, storage, and network engineering teams to incorporate recovery requirements into technology designs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance during significant outages and recovery events.
• Identify material technical recovery risks and drive remediation with appropriate engineering and application teams.
• Evaluate emerging disaster recovery and resilience technologies and recommend improvements to the firm's recovery capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance to technology teams on disaster recovery engineering practices.
• Maintain technical architecture, recovery procedures, engineering standards, and complex recovery runbooks.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in disaster recovery engineering, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, cloud engineering, or technology resilience within complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and engineering complex enterprise disaster recovery solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and/or cloud environments.
• Advanced knowledge of recovery technologies including replication, backup/recovery, virtualization, storage, cloud resiliency, and recovery orchestration.
• Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure architecture and disaster recovery capabilities, including designing solutions to meet RTO and RPO requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Python, PowerShell, or similar scripting/automation technologies used to automate infrastructure, testing, validation, or recovery processes.

Core Requirements

• Advanced understanding of RTO, RPO, recovery architecture, and technology resilience principles.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure components including networking, storage, compute, virtualization, operating systems, databases, and cloud services.
• Experience leading complex disaster recovery tests, simulations, and technical recovery activities.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex recovery issues across multiple technology layers.
• Experience performing root-cause analysis and driving technical remediation.
• Ability to evaluate application and infrastructure designs for recoverability and resilience.
• Experience developing engineering standards, architecture patterns, technical procedures, and runbooks.
• Strong analytical and technical decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to influence technical teams without direct authority.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex recovery risks and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to provide technical mentoring and guidance to other engineers.
• Knowledge of technology risk management, controls, and regulatory expectations related to technology resilience.

Preferred

• Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience supporting disaster recovery within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with FFIEC, NIST, ISO 22301, or related resilience and business continuity frameworks.
• AWS and/or Azure professional-level certifications.
• Disaster recovery, business continuity, or resilience certifications.
• Experience with advanced DR orchestration and automated recovery solutions.
• Experience designing multi-region or multi-site recovery architectures.

This is a hybrid role, requiring onsite presence at our Fort Mill SC office 2–3 days per week, as much of the team and leadership are based there.

Pay Range:

$43.78-$72.94/hourActual 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!

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(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 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. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

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.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

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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.

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