Vice President, Senior Engineer

BlackRock•San Francisco, CA

2d•$213,512 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Engineer core services for the next generation Aladdin Container Platform to host cloud native applications at scale. Manage edge routing, load balancing, security, and web asset caching services for our internal and internet-facing applications. Support all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, system development, testing, implementation and production support for services and applications to scale system operations. Design and develop core distributed systems and cloud computing infrastructure, including Sybase, MSSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes. Create development environment for developers and build technology to scale system operations. Develop and support tools, frameworks, languages, and core libraries. Build different components of the distributed compute engine that retrieves, transforms, loads, and distributes complex, unstructured and structured reference data into Aladdin, while architecting a scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available system. Contribute to the open API platform to enable clients to integrate Aladdin into their enterprise.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or as an Associate, Analyst or a related role.
Five (5) years of experience with: Software development using Go, Java and Python
Five (5) years of experience with: Kubernetes and Docker for Containerization
Five (5) years of experience with: Software development principles and best practices, including object oriented programming, clean and modular code design, code reviews, testing strategies, version control, and long term maintainability
Five (5) years of experience with: Agile software development methodologies
Five (5) years of experience with: CI/CD using Azure DevOps and Amazon AWS
Five (5) years of experience with: Linux environments and shell scripting
Five (5) years of experience with: GitOps workflows including ArgoCD and Flux, and source control management
Five (5) years of experience with: Cloud Native concepts and best practices, including containerization, microservices, declarative infrastructure, scalability, resilience, and automation
Five (5) years of experience with: Sybase and MSSQL Database Experience
Four (4) years of experience with: Networking and containerization fundamentals, including edge routing, DNS, ingress and network security
Four (4) years of experience with: Secrets management, PKI, and certificate lifecycle automation including Vault, cert-manager and cert-based auth, and k8s secrets
Four (4) years of experience with: Helm, Kustomize, and manifest management including templating, overlays, and chart design
Four (4) years of experience with: Monitoring, alerting, and SLOs including Prometheus, Grafana, dashboards, and alert tuning

Responsibilities

Engineer core services for the next generation Aladdin Container Platform to host cloud native applications at scale.
Manage edge routing, load balancing, security, and web asset caching services for our internal and internet-facing applications.
Support all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, system development, testing, implementation and production support for services and applications to scale system operations.
Design and develop core distributed systems and cloud computing infrastructure, including Sybase, MSSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Create development environment for developers and build technology to scale system operations.
Develop and support tools, frameworks, languages, and core libraries.
Build different components of the distributed compute engine that retrieves, transforms, loads, and distributes complex, unstructured and structured reference data into Aladdin, while architecting a scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available system.
Contribute to the open API platform to enable clients to integrate Aladdin into their enterprise.