Site Reliability Engineer, VP - Blackstone Technology & Innovations

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Blackstone’s Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for improving the reliability of systems and services across the firm. This is achieved through the education and enablement of engineers on SRE practices and principles. You’ll have the opportunity to evaluate and select tools, deploy and maintain observability systems and pipelines, mature the operations and support of services and platforms, and solve new problems ands challenges as they arise.

This position involves the selection, implementation, and maintenance of key observability tooling. It requires ongoing evaluation of the firm’s needs in observability, monitoring, alerting, resilience, and recovery. We collaborate with service owners on design, implementation, and management of services for continuous improvements. We improve the reliability of services by continuously evaluating availability using clear definitions and measurable targets. We plan for and practice recovery from disaster scenarios and respond in real time to incidents alongside service owners. We guide the postmortem process for continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enable and assist in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm

• Setting standards and objectives to measure and improve the firm’s adoption of SRE principles over time

• Partnering with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to establish indicators and targets for service reliability

• Collaborating to implement SLO based monitoring for many platforms and services

• Leveraging software and systems engineering skill sets to achieve and maintain availability targets while enabling developer velocity

• Implementing monitoring and alerting that reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations

• Evaluating, selecting, and implementing strategic observability tools and working to minimize overhead in maintenance

• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to minimize downtime and ensure service availability

• Using automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems and to minimize individual operational toil

• Fostering a blameless culture while driving postmortem discussions and reporting

Qualifications:

• Ability to write automation scripts, as well as read and troubleshoot code (Python, Bash, C#, Javascript etc)

• Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience, preferred Azure experience)

• Configuration-as-code, infrastructure management, and adjacent CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab, Jenkins)

• Hand-on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS

• Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux, Windows, and Networking

• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.)

• Incident management, conducting postmortems

• Excellent communication and organizational skills

• Drive to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownership

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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