Vice President, DevOps Engineer

BlackRock • Atlanta, GA

7d • $148,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

About this role For our BlackRock SMA Solutions Architecture & Devops team we are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for building, scaling, optimizing and maintenance of our applications and Kubernetes (EKS)/AWS infrastructure. You will be working with the engineering teams and focusing on the infrastructure and automation.

Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in provisioning, operations, and management of cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Experience with Kubernetes, specifically in large, multi-cluster deployments, minimum 5 years
• Experience in code development/scripting in at least one high-level programming language, preferably Python - 10 years.
• Working knowledge of using Terraform, Jenkins & ArgoCD in the cloud environments, min 5 years
• Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, min 5 years
• Experience in securing & hardening applications running in Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of CI/CD – Jenkins, GitHub actions
• Experience with git, GitHub
• Familiarity with GitOps concepts & tooling
• Knowledge of operating system administration.
• Experience in creation of highly automated infrastructures.
• Good knowledge regarding contemporary processes and methodologies for development and operations.
• Experience with scaling, optimizing and tunning multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
• Experience with concepts and tooling used for patching cloud instances.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Build, deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of cloud-based production system.
• Ensuring high availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.
• Managing cloud-based infrastructure to ensure resilient and secure environment.

Benefits

• employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits
• strong retirement plan
• tuition reimbursement
• comprehensive healthcare
• support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed