Vice President Agentic Engineering (Site Reliability, Operations and Performance)

About this role

Role Summary

The Lead Agentic Engineering is responsible for elevating site reliability operations and performance tuning through agentassisted and policydriven automation. This role designs and scales intelligent operational workflows that reduce toil improve resilience and proactively optimise system performancewhile maintaining enterprisegrade safety governance and control. The role acts as a horizontal enabler partnering with SRE platform and engineering teams rather than owning daytoday operations.

Mission: Design and enable safe governed agentic AI systems that autonomously observe reason and act across production platforms to enhance reliability speed recovery and continuously optimise performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operationalise agentbased workflows for incident triage remediation alert management and operational decisionmaking.

• Embed agentic capabilities into SRE practices (SLOs SLIs error budgets production readiness).

• Lead proactive performance engineering using intelligent agents to detect and resolve latency throughput cost and capacity issues.

• Establish humanintheloop vs autonomous execution models with clear guardrails and rollback.

• Define reusable patterns for observability automation and agentready control surfaces.

• Partner with security risk and compliance to ensure safe auditable automation.

• Own the Agentic Engineering roadmap for reliability operations and performance.

Success Measures

• Reduced MTTR incident volume and operational toil

• Applying agentic AI to automate operational workflows incident response and recovery

• Sustained performance and cost improvements driven by agentic decisionmaking

• Adoption of agentic patterns across platforms

• Zero critical incidents from unsafe automation

Required Experience/ qualification

• Good understanding of SRE Production Operations Platform Engineering or Performance Engineering

• Experience designing or integrating AIenabled or ruledriven automation

• Proven ability to lead crossfunctional initiatives without formal authority

• Post Graduation with a PHD in computer science.

• End-to-End MLOps LLMs & RAG Vector Databases Distributed Systems Design Computer Vision.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized engaged and inspired we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan tuition reimbursement comprehensive healthcare support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRocks hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients and the people they serve are saving for retirement paying for their childrens educations buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment the one we make in our employees. Its why were dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed valued and supported with networks benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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