Cloud Platforms Engineer, VP Data, Cloud & Developer Experience

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Role Overview

Blackstones Platform Engineering team delivers the firms nextgeneration public cloud platform enabling application teams to securely build deploy and operate critical workloads at scale. The platform is designed with a strong emphasis on softwaredefined infrastructure automation developer experience and supporting innovation across a global organization.

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.

You will operate with a high degree of independence applying strong software engineering principles and disciplined problemsolving skills to design and evolve platform systems that operate at enterprise scale. Clear effective communication is essentialyou are expected to document technical decisions articulate tradeoffs 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Design build and evolve core platform services that underpin Blackstones public cloud environments including AWS and Azure

• Develop and manage Terraformbased infrastructure including authoring reusable modules operating Terraform Cloud and improving usability and selfservice for platform consumers

• Own the design and implementation of critical platform components from concept through production support

• Build and enhance selfservice 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 subjectmatter expertise

• Work independently to gather requirements and design and implement solutions while collaborating closely with crossfunctional partners (such as Application Security and SRE) to deliver platform capabilities as part of small adhoc teams within a large organization

• Maintain strong delivery discipline including prioritization backlog management and execution tracking using Jira

• Participate in the teams 24/7 oncall 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

Required Qualifications

• 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 productionoriented design and building and maintaining production quality services and applications not just scripting or quality services and applications not just scripting or adhochoc automation

• Experience building and operating platform capabilities as products with a strong emphasis on developer experience documentation adoption and continuous improvement

• Deep handson experience with Terraform including complex module design state management lifecycle operations and production support of infrastructureascode at scale

• Experience operating Terraform Cloud; Sentinel experience is preferred

• Handson 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 daytodayday pipeline usage is expected

• Experience leading technical response during production incidents including root cause analysis and postincident reviews

• Strong understanding of distributed systems cloudnative 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-totoend 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-incidentincident reviews

• Experience contributing to technical roadmaps and architectural direction without formal people managementmanagement 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-basedbased 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 decisionmaking and sound engineering judgment

• You communicate clearly and effectively producing highquality 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 highimpact production issues focusing on resolution learning and continuous improvement

• You think of platforms as products balancing usability reliability and longterm maintainability for internal customers with varying levels of technical experience

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:

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individuals 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 Blackstones 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)(EMEA) or(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:

• 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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