Cloud Platform Engineer

This role is a senior-level individual contributor position at the Vice President level, not a people manager. As a VP Platform Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader, building and advancing core platform capabilities, and working in close partnership with application teams, security stakeholders, and fellow engineers to enable reliable and secure delivery at scale., * Design, build, and evolve core platform services that underpin Blackstone’s public cloud environments, including AWS and Azure

• Develop and manage Terraform-based infrastructure, including authoring reusable modules, operating Terraform Cloud, and improving usability and self-service for platform consumers
• Own the design and implementation of critical platform components, from concept through production support
• Build and enhance self-service capabilities and internal developer tooling that improve consistency and developer productivity
• Partner closely with cloud security and risk teams to ensure platforms are secure, compliant, and resilient by design
• Improve platform availability, resiliency, and recoverability through modern architectural patterns and deployment strategies
• Enhance observability, diagnostics, and operational supportability across the platform
• Serve as a trusted technical resource and mentor for junior-level engineers and consultants, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment through approachability, reliability, and subject-matter expertise
• Work independently to gather requirements and design and implement solutions, while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners (such as Application Security and SRE) to deliver platform capabilities as part of small, ad-hoc teams within a large organization
• Maintain strong delivery discipline, including prioritization, backlog management, and execution tracking using Jira
• Participate in the team’s 24/7 on-call rotation, typically approximately one week out of every four
• Stay current with evolving trends in platform engineering, cloud services, modern DevOps, and automation practices to guide platform evolution

You will operate with a high degree of independence, applying strong software engineering principles and disciplined problem-solving skills to design and evolve platform systems that operate at enterprise scale. Clear, effective communication is essential-you are expected to document technical decisions, articulate trade-offs, and explain solutions to stakeholders with varying levels of technical experience. Success in this role requires strong organizational skills and collaborating effectively across a large, globally distributed engineering organization., * 7+ years of experience in a platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or similar individual contributor role, with demonstrated ownership of shared platforms used by multiple engineering teams

• Strong software development skills in Python or C#, with an emphasis on object oriented design and building and maintaining production-oriented design and building and maintaining production quality services and applications, not just scripting or -quality services and applications, not just scripting or adhoc-hoc automation
• Experience building and operating platform capabilities as products, with a strong emphasis on developer experience, documentation, adoption, and continuous improvement
• Deep, hands-on experience with Terraform, including complex module design, state management, lifecycle operations, and production support of infrastructure-as-code at scale
• Experience operating Terraform Cloud; Sentinel experience is preferred
• Hands-on experience operating public cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) in production environments
• Experience designing, owning, and operating CI/CD pipelines, with a preference for GitLab CI/CD
• Jenkins experience is preferred
• Clear distinction between pipeline ownership and day-today-day pipeline usage is expected
• Experience leading technical response during production incidents, including root cause analysis and post-incident reviews
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and platform reliability and resiliency principles
• Proficiency with Jira (or similar project management tooling) for planning, prioritization, and delivery tracking
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and supporting engineers without formal authority, contributing to team effectiveness and technical growth within a large organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) such as Cortex (preferred), Backstage, or OpsLevel
• Experience automating end-to-to-end developer workflows, from source control through CI/CD, deployment, and runtime operations
• Experience working directly with application development teams to understand their needs and deliver platform capabilities that improve developer experience and productivity
• Familiarity with containerized and serverless runtime environments, including Kubernetes and managed cloud-native services
• Familiarity with SRE practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and post-incident-incident reviews
• Experience contributing to technical roadmaps and architectural direction without formal people management-management responsibilities
• Experience designing internal APIs or services consumed by multiple teams
• Experience operating platforms in regulated or security -conscious environments
• Exposure to cloud cost optimization or FinOps practices
• Experience with and understanding of fundamental networking concepts, including both physical networking and cloud-based-based networking
• Strong documentation practices, including clear runbooks, design proposals, and operational guides
• Experience with TypeScript

What Sets You Apart

• You are a trusted technical expert who is sought out for solving complex platform and infrastructure problems
• You demonstrate strong ownership and accountability, taking initiatives from idea through successful production outcomes
• You balance deep technical expertise with pragmatic decision-making and sound engineering judgment
• You communicate clearly and effectively, producing high-quality documentation and explaining complex concepts to audiences with varying levels of technical experience
• You influence technical direction and best practices through collaboration and example, without relying on formal authority
• You actively mentor and support engineers, contributing to the overall technical growth and effectiveness of the organization
• You operate calmly and decisively during high-impact production issues, focusing on resolution, learning, and continuous improvement
• You think of platforms as products, balancing usability, reliability, and long-term maintainability for internal customers with varying levels of technical experience