The board
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- Fort Mill/Charlotte
- Posted
- Sep 2
Where Ambition Meets Innovation
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 motivated and technology-driven Platform Engineering Intern to help build, automate, and enhance the enterprise platforms that power our advisor-facing applications, data systems, and internal technology services.
This role offers hands-on experience with modern cloud technologies, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, and operational excellence practices that enable secure, scalable, and reliable solutions across the organization.
What you'd do
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of cloud and platform services.
- Assist in the implementation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to standardize and automate technology environments.
- Support cloud operations and platform engineering initiatives focused on availability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Participate in monitoring, observability, and incident response activities to help ensure platform health and reliability.
- Contribute to security, governance, risk, and compliance initiatives across cloud and infrastructure ecosystems.
- Assist with CI/CD pipeline enhancements and automation efforts that improve software delivery processes.
- Document platform architectures, technical workflows, operational procedures, and engineering standards.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
What they want
- Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, management information systems (MIS), software engineering or a related field.
- Ability to work on-site in an LPL primary office location
- Problem Solving – Analyze complex platforms, cloud, and operational challenges and develop practical solutions.
- Systems Thinking – Understand how applications, infrastructure, data, and AI-enabled services work together to deliver business value.
- Automation & AI Mindset – Leverage automation and emerging AI technologies to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaboration – Partner effectively with engineering, security, architecture, and operations teams.
- Operational Excellence – Demonstrate attention to detail and commitment to secure, reliable, and scalable solutions.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and modern infrastructure concepts.
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and container technologies (e.g., Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Basic programming or scripting experience in Python, PowerShell, Bash, Java, or similar languages.
- Starts
- 2026-08-18