Vice President, DevOps Engineer

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. Duties & 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. 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. 
For Atlanta, GA Only the salary range for this position is USD$148,000.00 - USD$200,000.00 . 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 m ... (truncated, view full listing at source)