Site Reliability Engineer - Data, Cloud & Developer Experience

The Blackstone Group L P
New York, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$140,000.0 - $225,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure C Sharp (Programming Language) Continuous Integration Linux DevOps Monitoring of Systems Python (Programming Language) Reliability Engineering Site Reliability Engineering Practices
+11 more
Prometheus Software Engineering TypeScript Grafana Reliability of Systems AWS ECS Gitlab-ci Puppet Terraform Splunk Docker

Job description

Blackstone’s Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for improving the reliability of systems and services to meet the needs of the business. This is achieved through collaboration with the development and engineering teams to leverage SRE practices and principles. You’ll have the opportunity to identify and solve new problems as they arise, deploy and maintain observability systems and pipelines, enhance operations and support for services and platforms, and pursue emerging opportunities for efficiency and business value. This position involves the selection, implementation, and maintenance of key observability tooling. It requires ongoing evaluation of the firms needs in observability, monitoring, alerting, resilience, and recovery., * Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm

  • Incorporate observability standards into code and deployment pipelines
  • Evolve the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams
  • Partner with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to improve service reliability and operational efficiency
  • Assist developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants
  • Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners
  • Ensure monitoring and alerting reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations
  • Implement strategic observability tools and work to control overhead in maintenance and cost
  • Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact
  • Use automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention
  • Foster a blameless team culture while assisting in postmortem discussions and reporting, * 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.

Requirements

  • 5 + years of professional experience with either, Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering or Platform Engineering.
  • Automation script writing skills; effectively reads and troubleshoots code (Python, C#, Typescript, etc.)
  • Makes effective use of coding assistants and chat models (Anthropic, OpenAI)
  • Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience required, preferred Azure experience)
  • Configuration-as-code, infrastructure management, and CI/CD tooling experience (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab CI)
  • Hand-on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux and Windows, and networking experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.)
  • Comfortable under pressure with incident management and collaborating during postmortems
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills
  • Curiosity and motivation to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownership

Benefits & conditions

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:

$140,000 - $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 and benefits offered in connection with the role consist of comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits; paid time off; life insurance; 401(k) plan; and discretionary bonuses. Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).

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

About the company

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 Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.

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