Lead DevOps Engineer (VP)

About this role

DevOps operate across the full suite of services, supporting our clients around the world.  We are responsible for designing, building, and operating our infrastructure, middleware, and CI/CD systems to ensure our teams have access to the best tools available.  We combine problem-solving skills with software and systems engineering to take a proactive approach in building fault-tolerant and secure systems, improving observability and zealously automating away toil.

This role sits within Preqin, a part of BlackRock. Preqin plays a key role in how we are revolutionising private markets data and technology for clients globally, complementing our existing Aladdin technology platform to deliver investment solutions for the whole portfolio.

In this role you will: 

• Use your site reliability expertise to design, operate and support Preqin’s infrastructure, middleware and internal services.  Improving their performance, availability, scalability, latency and efficiency.

• Drive technical excellence in everything we do, fostering a culture of data-driven reliability, monitoring and automation, following SRE best-practices.

• Work alongside development teams to design and build scalable and high available services, while establishing effective build frameworks for continuous deployment and self-service automation.

• Work on incident resolution and engage with various teams (including 3rd parties) for support escalation.

You are a good fit if:

• You have previously worked with Amazon AWS cloud administration, including services such as: EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling Groups, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and Security Groups.

• You possess expertise in containerisation within Kubernetes and Docker and are familiar with the pattern of Microservice Architecture.  You can define container configuration and troubleshoot issues.

• You’re an expert with configuration management technologies such as Terraform and/or Ansible, as well as associated paradigms such as Infrastructure as Code and Immutable Infrastructure.

• You’re comfortable with building CI/CD pipelines in e.g. TeamCity/ Jenkins/ Concourse.

• You have hands-on experience in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g. Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java, C#), within an SCM environment (e.g. Bitbucket, GitHub).

• You have good networking skills, including knowledge of routing & switching protocols as well as DNS, firewalling, load-balancing and global traffic management.

• You are familiar with, and able to install, configure and manage various persistence technologies, including database technologies (NoSQL/SQL) and broker/ queuing systems (e.g. Kafka, SQS), including knowledge of HA/ clustering.

• You are comfortable with various logging, monitoring and alerting platforms and have expertise in the usage (and, desirably, the deployment) of e.g. ELK, CloudWatch, Fluentd, to enable forensic log analysis and system tuning as well as data-driven performance analysis (i.e. SLI/ SLO) and capacity planning.

• You are a competent Linux & Windows systems administrator (for multiple distributions), including storage management (e.g. LVM, RAID) and security best-practices e.g. SSH, SSL/TLS, HMAC, IPS/IDS.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.