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Role Overview

Blackstones DevOps Engineering team enables application teams to securely build deploy and operate workloads across public cloud environments. The team focuses on infrastructure automation CI/CD developer productivity observability and operational excellence.

As an AVP DevOps Engineer you will design build and support cloud infrastructure automation platforms and developer tooling that improve reliability scalability security and developer experience. You will partner with application teams platform engineers cloud security and SRE teams to deliver modern cloud-native solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design implement and support cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.

• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and Terraform Cloud.

• Develop and operate CI/CD platforms and deployment automation preferably GitLab CI/CD.

• Support compute platforms including VMs containers Kubernetes managed container services and serverless services.

• Build and enhance developer tooling self-service capabilities Dev Containers Remote IDE solutions and standardized development environments.

• Manage AI coding assistants including Claude and context management platforms such as MCP services for code and documentation workflows.

• Design and support cloud networking services including DNS certificates load balancing CDN integration routing private connectivity and hybrid networking.

• Improve platform reliability observability security and operational efficiency through automation.

• Participate in incident response root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Collaborate with engineering security and operations teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities.

• Participate in the teams on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years in DevOps Platform Engineering Cloud Infrastructure SRE or similar engineering roles.

• Strong programming skills in Python or C# with an emphasis on maintainable production-quality automation and services.

• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform Terraform Cloud reusable modules state management and IaC lifecycle operations.

• Experience operating AWS and/or Azure production environments.

• Experience designing and operating CI/CD and deployment automation platforms preferably GitLab CI/CD.

• Strong understanding of containers container orchestration Kubernetes managed container services and serverless architectures.

• Experience with Dev Containers Remote IDEs standardized development environments and self-service developer platforms.

• Strong understanding of DNS TLS/SSL certificates load balancing CDNs cloud networking routing private connectivity and network troubleshooting.

• Experience with observability monitoring incident response production support and distributed system troubleshooting.

• Strong communication documentation and cross-functional collaboration skills; proficiency with Jira or similar delivery tracking tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms such as Cortex Backstage or OpsLevel.

• Experience automating end-to-end developer workflows from local development through deployment and runtime operations.

• Familiarity with SRE practices including SLIs SLOs and post-incident reviews.

• Experience in regulated or security-conscious environments.

• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices.

• Experience with TypeScript.

You bring strong ownership practical problem-solving and a passion for automation and developer productivity. You balance reliability scalability security and usability while communicating clearly and operating effectively in a fast-paced highly technical environment.

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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