Reliability Engineer – Automation Engineer

About this role

Company Overview: We are looking for a highly skilled and dynamic individual to join our Production Engineering team within the Aladdin Engineering. This role is perfect for someone passionate about technical troubleshooting optimizing system performance and developing innovative automation solutions. In addition to strong expertise in secrets management and automation this role increasingly focuses on applied AI including AI-assisted operations and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)–based assistants to improve reliability operability and developer productivity

Role Overview: As a Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring the performance scalability and stability of our platforms through automation intelligent tooling and AI-assisted workflows. You will build and operate automation and AI-driven solutions that enhance system reliability optimize operational efficiency and improve how engineers interact with platforms—particularly around Vault infrastructure and secrets management. This includes leveraging Python AI frameworks and data-driven approaches to analyze system behavior automate diagnostics and enable self-service capabilities via AI assistants.

Key Responsibilities:

· Design build and operate reliable scalable platforms using automation Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Ansible) CI/CD and GitOps practices across cloud and containerized environments.

· Automate operational workflows using Python and scripting including secure configuration and enterprise secrets management lifecycle (provisioning rotation access and recovery).

· Develop and integrate AI-assisted operational tooling including RAG-based assistants to support incident response troubleshooting diagnostics and engineer self-service.

· Build and maintain knowledge ingestion and retrieval pipelines (logs metrics runbooks configuration data) to power AI assistants and intelligent automation.

· Monitor and analyze system health performance and capacity using observability tools (e.g. logs metrics dashboards) and perform root cause analysis for platform incidents.

· Participate in on-call rotations supporting production systems and driving continuous improvement through automation and AI-driven reduction of operational toil.

· Support disaster recovery planning and execution application onboarding upgrades and change management for platforms relying on centralized secrets and secure configuration services.

· Ensure all automation and AI solutions are secure explainable and production-ready meeting enterprise and regulated-environment requirements.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field.

· Strong Python development skills for automation systems analysis and integration with AI tooling.

· Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.

· Hands-on experience with Ansible Terraform and configuration-as-code practices.

· Experience using monitoring and observability tools to track and optimize resource utilization.

· Foundational understanding of AI/ML concepts particularly as applied to automation observability or developer tooling.

Preferred Skills:

· Experience with Linux-based server environments.

· Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized platforms.

· Exposure to RAG architectures vector databases or AI assistant frameworks in production or platform contexts.

· Prior experience in financial services or large-scale technology environments.

· Experience designing systems for high availability scalability and fault tolerance.

Good to have:

· Azure certification.

· Certification or hands-on experience with enterprise secrets management platforms.

· Experience building or operating AI-powered internal developer platforms or assistants.

Ideal Candidate: You are a proactive analytical engineer with a strong foundation in secrets management automation and platform reliability and a growing passion for AI-driven operations. You enjoy applying AI pragmatically—building assistants automations and intelligent workflows that reduce toil improve reliability and empower engineers at scale. If you are excited about combining automation AI and secure platform services to shape the future of production engineering we would love to speak with you.

Our benefits
To help you stay energized engaged and inspired we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan tuition reimbursement comprehensive healthcare support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients and the people they serve are saving for retirement paying for their children’s educations buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed valued and supported with networks benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race creed color national origin sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression) sexual orientation age ancestry physical or mental disability marital status political affiliation religion citizenship status genetic information veteran status or any other basis protected under applicable federal state or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process please email [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

What We Do

As the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock partners with investors around the globe to help them (and those on whose behalf they invest) plan for life’s most important goals – like retirement home ownership and their children’s education. Our clients range from governments foundations and other large institutions to those investing on behalf of individuals including firefighters nurses teachers and factory workers. BlackRock was founded with the idea of creating a better asset management firm — one that was purpose-driven focused on clients and risk management and propelled by data and technology. Our breakthrough Aladdin® platform is BlackRock’s technological backbone helping investors see and manage their whole portfolios in one place – from constructing investments to monitoring risk and executing trades. Used by hundreds of external institutions around the world Aladdin combines powerful analytics and a common language to help investment teams make faster more informed decisions across public and private markets. It’s a key part of our business and one of the reasons we’re trusted to manage more assets than any other investment manager today. At BlackRock we challenge conventions and raise the bar for what’s possible. We harness technology to unlock new solutions simplify complexity and deliver investment strategies that meet people where they are. Whether it’s retirement planning wealth building or navigating market shifts we’re here to help clients invest more easily more affordably and with more choice as we chart a path toward financial well-being together. Learn more: Careers.BlackRock.com

Why Work With Us

Without our people technology is irrelevant. When we combine the power of people with the power of technology we amplify our ability to create better outcomes for our employees clients shareholders and society alike.

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