DevOps (Reliability & Cloud Automation) Engineer-Associate

About this role

Team Overview: We are looking for a highly skilled and dynamic individual to join our Production Engineering team within the Aladdin Engineering. This role is perfect for someone passionate about technical troubleshooting, optimizing system performance, and developing innovative automation solutions. If you have expertise in secret management especially HashiCorp Vault, and a strong background in automation, we want to hear from you!

Role Overview: As a Vault Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the performance, scalability, and stability of our systems by automating tasks, optimizing resource utilization, and enhancing capacity planning for the Platform. Your role will include using Python and other automation tools to manage system performance, analyze resource utilization, and help scale infrastructure efficiently.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in projects to enhance resiliency and ensure availability and stability of systems, with a focus on BlackRock's Aladdin systems.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible for provisioning, managing, and scaling infrastructure, with an emphasis on HashiCorp Vault infrastructure and services both On-Prem and in the Cloud.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines applying DevOps principles for lifecycle management of clusters, including Vault clusters.
• Use programming and scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Bash to automate operational tasks, with a particular focus on automating tasks related to Vault.
• Create, deploy, and manage configurations via GitOps Continuous Deployment frameworks, specifically for Vault Managed Hardware (MWH) and secrets management.
• Participate in on-call schedules, monitoring health of clusters, nodes, and application servers, including Vault Clusters and Nodes.
• Conduct analyses on infrastructure and cluster performance, and perform root cause diagnostics, particularly for Vault infrastructure.
• Assist in the implementation of Production Operations changes, with a focus on changes affecting Vault.
• Support planning of disaster recovery contingencies for applications, including those that utilize Vault for secret management.
• Support batch workloads, real-time processing, data transfer services, application onboarding, and upgrades, with a focus on integrating Vault into these processes.
• Enhance resiliency of environments using automation scripts, with a focus on scripts that interact with Vault.
• Conduct root cause analysis for issues with accuracy or performance, and monitor container logs with tools like Splunk and Grafana, with an eye towards maintaining the health of Vault.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in System Engineering for Hashicorp Vault.
• Strong expertise in Python coding for automation and performance analysis.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
• Familiarity with infrastructure management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and other Configuration as Code technologies.
• Experience with monitoring tools to track and optimize resource utilization.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Linux server environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Prior experience in financial services or technology industries.
• Experience in system scalability, load balancing, and high-availability environments.

Good to have:

• Certification in Azure.
• Certification in Hashicorp Vault

Ideal Candidate: You are a proactive and analytical engineer with a deep understanding of secrets management tool. Your Python skills enable you to build automated solutions for managing infrastructure, while your experience in capacity planning ensures that systems scale efficiently. If you are excited about driving automation, improving system performance, and working with cutting-edge technologies, we would love to speak with you!

For Wilmington, DE Only the salary range for this position is USD$110,000.00 - USD$138,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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

BlackRock’s 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 children’s 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. It’s why we’re 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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