Senior Network Engineer-VP

About this role

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.

BlackRock's Technology Cloud Services team is responsible for building and growing a multi-cloud strategy. We are looking for a Cloud Network Engineer focused on network security & design to join our team. We are a newly formed interdisciplinary team focusing on leveraging cloud capabilities within BlackRock's powerful asset management platform in a scalable resilient and secure manner. We are passionate about solving difficult problems through technology and are focused on utilizing the cloud to tackle large scale challenges.

We have a team that work globally and excited to get someone with deep technical expertise in Cloud Networking to help move us forward! We want to see how our successful candidate will fit into our Agile team and for them to impress our internal development teams with their guru level knowledge!

You are looking at a firm that recognizes strength comes from diversity and will embrace your outstanding skills curiosity and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. You are a strong candidate when it comes to your ability to work in an international team. You will have experience in building cloud infrastructure while keeping security cost performance and complexity at top of mind.

As a Cloud Network Engineer focused on network security you will:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary squad to build out our cloud platform connectivity stacks
• Participate in agile ceremonies to help deliver our commitments within our team
• Utilize deep technical knowledge to drive the delivery of scalable & secure network resources
• Participate with design and feedback workshops to improve our services and quality of work
• Assist in solving issues with the cloud services & platform related to network connectivity partnering with our wider networking teams
• Build cloud network connectivity architectures & systems. Participate in design reviews and deliver on those designs.
• Take well known on-premise ways of working and translate them into a cloud native approach for modern technologies

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience provisioning deploying and supporting cloud native applications in Azure with Terraform ARM templates or equivalent
• Minimum of 4 years' experience designing & implementing cloud connectivity; VPC/Network peering Cloud-to-Cloud On-prem-to-cloud
• To demonstrate experience using the following services from a cloud provider; VNets Resource Groups Functions AzureVM NSGs Express Route RBAC
• To have been using Terraform blueprints or CloudFormation to deliver complex infrastructure across Azure (Preferred) or AWS. Some GCP knowledge is useful.
• Deep technical knowledge and experience securing sophisticated network architectures across on-prem and cloud.
• To demonstrate your experience with understanding sophisticated requirements and how they distill into designs.
• Experience in helping a multi-disciplinary team achieve their goals using GitOps processes.

• You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty when vital and you persevere where others do not
• Passionate about crafting and evolving CI/CD pipelines with GitLab or GitHub following GitOps principles
• Excited to bring order to cloud automation standards

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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