Infrastructure and Automation Engineer, Associate - Cloud & Platforms Engineering – New York

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency, and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team can make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.

Our Server and Application Engineering (SAE) team is looking for an Infrastructure and Automation Engineer who knows thrives in a modern environment. You should enjoy a dynamic and evolving environment, be adept at thinking outside of the box and constantly push inventive and scalable solutions – what may work for a handful of servers may not scale well across a thousand servers.

The SAE team works on automating our cloud infrastructure with PowerShell, Puppet, Terraform, and Amazon Web Services. You will be responsible for working with the SAE team to flush out business requirements, technical design, implementation, testing, release, and support.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of infrastructure or systems administration experience, preferably in an enterprise environment.

• A passion for technology, automation, and systems management.

• Familiarity with support and incident response procedures.

• Self-motivated, well-organized, and driven to solve problems regardless of ownership.

• Curious and flexible - quickly adapts to changing business requirements and new technology.

• Foundation in Windows operating systems, networking basics, and application support.

• Works closely with development teams to find solutions to technical problems.

• Hands-on experience any public cloud platform, AWS preferred.

• Working knowledge of Git for version control and infrastructure as code.

• Good technical communication skills and documents progress clearly.

• Demonstrated skill to learn legacy systems and work with existing codebases.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related discipline preferred but not required.

Technology:

• Amazon Web Services, mainly EC2, ELB, EBS, SSM, VPC, IAM, S3 

• Terraform, Puppet, Packer, Chocolatey 

• Jenkins, TeamCity, Git, GitLab 

• Windows Server, Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux 

• PowerShell, Python, Bash 

• Jira, agile methodologies 

• Fivetran, SQL Server, MySQL, and Snowflake are a plus 

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.

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.

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