Vice President, Senior Engineer

BlackRock•San Francisco, CA

12h•$213,512 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. Job Title: Vice President, Senior Engineer Location: 400 Howard St San Francisco, CA 94105 Job Duties: 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

Software development using Go, Java and Python
Kubernetes and Docker for Containerization
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
Agile software development methodologies
CI/CD using Azure DevOps and Amazon AWS
Linux environments and shell scripting
GitOps workflows including ArgoCD and Flux, and source control management
Cloud Native concepts and best practices, including containerization, microservices, declarative infrastructure, scalability, resilience, and automation
Sybase and MSSQL Database Experience
Networking and containerization fundamentals, including edge routing, DNS, ingress and network security
Secrets management, PKI, and certificate lifecycle automation including Vault, cert-manager and cert-based auth, and k8s secrets
Helm, Kustomize, and manifest management including templating, overlays, and chart design
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.