Overview
Who We Are
Revantage, a Blackstone Real Estate portfolio company, is a global provider of corporate services.
With a corporate purpose of 'In Pursuit of Better,' Revantage delivers value-added services and world-class talent for Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies, spanning diverse asset classes, including residential, logistics, office, hospitality and retail sectors. Headquartered in Chicago, the company's footprint extends across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Rooted in a commitment to collaboration and inclusivity, Revantage goes beyond traditional corporate services and acts as a trusted partner. Across offerings that include finance, technology, human resources and operations, Revantage proactively anticipates stakeholder needs, recruits exceptional talent and enables its business partners to thrive.
What We Value: Our Culture
Our people are our most important asset, enabling Blackstone portfolio companies and investments to scale and thrive. Together, we foster a workplace where everyone can be themselves, enabling them to do their best work.
At Revantage, we have exceptional people who live our values and help us pursue better every day. We offer dynamic and meaningful work, competitive compensation, benefits and flexibility. We listen and take action to ensure our organization evolves to reflect our employees' voices and support an inclusive culture.
Our demonstrated commitment to our people and collaborative culture have earned us numerous awards as a top employer.
Our culture is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:
- Learners - We learn from our challenges and successes
- Leaders - We commit to continuous improvement
- Enthusiasts - We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible
- Achievers - We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams
- Partners - We deliver value and positive impact to our partners
Grow your career with us. As a member of our team, you'll gain hands-on experience in the real estate industry and benefit from a supportive environment that fosters personal and professional growth.
Who We Are
Revantage is a Blackstone Company that provides a highly skilled employee base, best-in-class processes, and state-of-the-art technology to multiple Blackstone real estate portfolio companies. Sectors include Hospitality, Industrial, Multi-Family, Office, Retail, Senior Housing, and Manufactured Homes.
Revantage, headquartered in Chicago, is one of three global offices that includes Revantage Asia and Revantage Europe.
What We Value: Our Culture
Creating a culture that inspires change and momentum require the right team. We know what it takes to lead an industry, and are looking for leaders who seek constant growth, want to excel, and continuously improve upon themselves and the industry. The culture at Revantage is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:
- Achievers - We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams
- Enthusiasts - We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible
- Leaders - We commit to continuously improve our performance
- Learners - We learn from our challenges and successes
- Partners - We deliver value and positive impact to our partners
Why This Role Is Valuable
The position is responsible for supporting operational innovation and providing security direction to the business elevating security within cloud computing infrastructure infrastructures. As an advanced role, the cloud security engineer helps deliver scalable, resilient applications to support business initiatives. The individual is expected to use advanced administrative and troubleshooting skills, and knowledge of good architecture, engineering, and design principles. The cloud security engineer should be adept at dealing with disparate applications and data systems to maintain the level of rigor required to match business direction. Along with depth of system coverage, the role involves planning and designing policies and maintenance.
In tandem with security guidance, cloud security engineers consistently assess the threat landscape and adapt quickly to protect the business. They must have a strong work ethic, leverage analytical and critical thinking, and skillfully address timely change requests. Strong listening and communication skills are required in working with business units.
How You Add Value
- Develop and maintain secure, resilient, enterprise-grade cloud processes in tandem with architects and system engineers.
- Design, configure, and maintain SEIM, EUBA, firewall and web filtering, endpoint and email security, and automated response integrations.
- Secure business applications and computing environments across public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
- Protect business applications in compliance with privacy, security, business resiliency and compliance frameworks as defined in corporate policies.
- Use configuration management to maintain a consistent, secure environment. Conduct rigorous oversight of security systems and security configuration administration to reduce risk to enterprise systems and accounts.
- Deploy strong identity and access management controls across applications and computing environments.
- Assist with developing, maintaining, and utilizing scripts to support custom extract and transform load tools with a security focus for data flow.
- Design automated process security controls.
- Attend regular technical project meetings as the security consultant to guide secure application and infrastructure configurations.
- Actively monitor, assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments.
- Act as a key participant in incident response to document and report occurrence and resolution.
- Coordinate and lead remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention.
- Document, formulate and enforce areas of security improvement that balance risk with business operations and do not diminish efficiencies or innovation.
- Assist in maintaining strong oversight of cloud computing vendors and solution providers to safeguard against undue risk. When points of weakness are discovered, escalate to security management and business unit leads.
- Stay apprised of current and proposed security changes impacting regulatory, privacy and security industry best practice guidance. Apply learned knowledge across key lines of business, including products, practices and procedures.
- Participate in the change control process.
- Participate in on-call rotation for 24/7 incident response coverage. On-call is typically one week each month or as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What You Bring To The Role
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information assurance, MIS, or related field; or equivalent industry experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in security and systems administration with Azure cloud infrastructure, including software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS).
- Solid understanding and experience with administering Windows operating systems and Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem, including administrative use of PowerShell.
- Knowledge of and experience with forensic tools use and incident response, especially within Azure environments
- Skill with Microsoft Office to create reports and metrics dashboards
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred:
- Experience configuring and using Okta, Mimecast,Tanium, Cribl, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Sentinel
- Configuration and use of Linux, Python, and additional cloud ecosystems like Amazon AWS and Google Cloud
- Security certifications such as CCSP, CISSP, Azure Security Engineer or similar
Perks for You
- Competitive salary, overall compensation, and 401(k)
- Work-life balance offerings include:
- Remote work policy
- Productivity Hours - weekly meeting-free work time
- Bi-weekly Summer Fridays
- In-house and external learning & development opportunities
- Generous health insurance and wellness benefits
Base Compensation Range :
$105,000.00 To $150,000.00. This represents the presently-anticipated low and high end of the Company's base salary range for this position. Actual base salary range may vary based on various factors, including but not limited to location and experience.
Total Direct Compensation : This job is also eligible for discretionary bonus and incentive compensation on an annual basis.
Benefits : The Company provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
The additional total direct compensation and benefits described above are subject to the terms and conditions of any governing plans, policies, practices, agreements, or other materials or documents as in effect from time to time, including but not limited to terms and conditions regarding eligibility.
EEO Statement
Revantage is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant, employee, or other covered person based on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, race, color, caste, immigration status, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation or related medical conditions), age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), protected leave status, domestic violence victim status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email [email protected]
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Top Skills
What We Do
Revantage North America is a professional corporate services company that embraces ambition and innovation to serve Blackstone’s Real Estate portfolio companies.
Blackstone is one of the largest real estate private equity investment managers in the world, with a real estate portfolio that includes logistics, rental housing, office, hospitality and retail properties in the North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Why Work With Us
If you’re looking to get high level exposure to senior leaders, be a pinch hitter, and grow rapidly within an organization, Revantage is the place for you. We work on a global playing field and interface directly with Blackstone and portfolio company executive management teams to problem solve using our best-in-class talent and resources.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.