Cloud Platform Engineer, Associate - Blackstone Technology & Innovations

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Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone's businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency, and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial - our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development means that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.

The Cloud Platform and Engineering team is responsible for providing the next generation public cloud platform that supports numerous diverse workloads and helps empower and accelerate innovation at the firm. As the platform is built with a strong bias towards software defined infrastructure and automation techniques, platform engineers will be tasked with leveraging software engineering principles and best practice cloud infrastructure patterns to solve critical problems and provide meaningful enhancements.

The position involves extending the existing platform and providing new capabilities to solve numerous problem domains. As an engineer on the team, you will be involved in design, implementation, and support of public cloud infrastructure, processes, and core components relied upon by applications across the firm. Team members will also be challenged with tracking developments in exciting areas like containerized runtimes, service meshes, and serverless computing in order to keep the platform evolving in powerful and impactful directions.

Key responsibilities:

• Leverage infrastructure-as-code frameworks to provision and maintain cloud resources
• Design, build, and maintain critical systems for identity, authorization, secrets management, and other core services
• Partner with cloud security teams to harden and secure cloud infrastructure
• Provide tooling and automated solutions to enable self-service
• Improve availability, resiliency, and recoverability of key systems by leveraging modern configuration management, deployment methods, and architectural patterns
• Work closely with DevOps teams to enable runtime environments that provide container and serverless solutions
• Enhance observability and supportability of the public cloud platform

Qualifications:

• Ability to write automation scripts and web services (Python)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g. Terraform)
• Hands-on experience with public cloud providers (AWS)
• Experience with configuration management tooling
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience working with git source control and CI/CD systems (Jenkins, TeamCity, Gitlab CICD)
• Experience with both Linux and Windows OS
• Preferred - experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, ECS)
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Strong troubleshooting skills

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

$130,000 - $145,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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