Infrastructure Automation Lead, VP - Cloud & Platforms Engineering

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
 

Blackstone Technology & Innovations:

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 mean 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. 

Role:

As a member of the Technology and Innovations team at Blackstone, you will work with a group of talented individuals in a highly team-oriented environment to create the next generation of innovative solutions for Blackstone and the financial community at large. 

Our Server and Application Engineering team is looking for a technical lead who knows how to manage an infrastructure team in a modern environment. You should enjoy a dynamic and evolving environment, be adept at thinking outside of the box and constantly push inventive and scalable solutions – what may work for a handful of servers may not scale well across a thousand servers.

The SAE team works on automating our cloud infrastructure with Powershell, Puppet, Terraform, and Amazon Web Services. They are also responsible for working with the team to flush out business requirements, technical design, implementation, testing, release, and support. We are looking for an experienced leader to help manage a team of enthusiastic engineers, including mentoring and developing individuals, while also providing best in class technical guidance. 

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of infrastructure automation experience within an enterprise-level environment  

• A passion for technology, automation and systems management

• Experienced in support and incident response procedures 

• Self-motivated, well-organized, and driven to solve problems regardless of ownership 

• Curious and flexible - able to quickly adapt to changing business requirements and new technology 

• Strong background in operating systems, local networking, and application support 

• Significant experience in systems management, infrastructure automation, and cloud architecture 

• Expert-level git skills, in particular for infrastructure management 

• Excellent technical communication skills 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related discipline preferred but not required 

Technology:

• Amazon Web Services, mainly EC2, ELB, EBS, SSM, VPC, IAM 

• Terraform, Puppet, Packer, Chocolatey 

• Jenkins, TeamCity, Git 

• Windows Server, Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux 

• Powershell, Python, Bash 

• Jira, agile methodologies 

• Fivetran, SQL Server, MySQL, and Snowflake are a plus 

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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:

$110,000 - $225,000

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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If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please email Human Resources at [email protected].

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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