Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer - Aladdin Product Group

02 Dec 2024

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About this role

BlackRock Overview

BlackRock is looking for innovative engineers who love solving complex problems. As a firm, we recognize 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.

With the assets of BlackRock's clients and over 200 technology customers on Aladdin we bear a major responsibility, both as a platform provider and as a fiduciary. Our powerful technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial wellbeing.

Team Overview

This role is part of an interdisciplinary team focusing on using cloud capabilities within BlackRock's powerful asset management platform. Members of our team have a consistent track record of solving some of the firm's most difficult problems in a scalable, resilient, and secure manner. We are passionate about solving problems through technology and are focused on utilizing the cloud to tackle large scale challenges.

This team owns the automation around provisioning, monitoring, and updating cloud infrastructure, as well as adapting our software platform to make accurate use of cloud. The team is also responsible for driving opportunities to improve our architecture using cloud and cloud-native technologies.

Security, data privacy, and system resilience are integral to the design and architecture. A candidate should have an appreciation for running platforms in the cloud with respect to security, cost, performance, and complexity. Experience implementing smart solutions in a commercial cloud is a strong plus.

A successful candidate has:
  • 7-10 + years of engineering experience in an enterprise level environment
  • A passion for building highly available, performant, and secure systems that our clients can trust
  • An appetite for learning and applying knowledge to solve problems
  • An open mind, and works well with a diverse set of people
  • Skills in Java, Go, Python, or similar programming languages
  • Knowledge of distributed systems and concepts such as data consistency. Experience with NoSql and/or relational databases, such as Cassandra, is a plus.
  • Experience with commercial clouds and cloud native architectures
  • Good communication and technical writing skills
  • An education in computer science or equivalent practical experience

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.

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 careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

  • ID: #23743487
  • State: New York New york city 10055 New york city USA
  • City: New york city
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2021-12-02
  • Deadline: 2022-01-30
  • Category: Security