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The Blackstone Group

Team Lead Platform Engineering The Blackstone Group
New York, NY

Blackstone Group is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management, and financial services firm.

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About The Blackstone Group

Job Description

Job Description:

Firm Overview:

Blackstone is one of the world's leading investment firms. 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 asset management businesses, with over $450 billion in assets under management, include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, 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 Twitter @Blackstone.

Business Unit:

Innovations

Business Unit Overview:

Blackstone Innovations (BXi) 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.

BXi is nimble and entrepreneurial - our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to 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.

Job description:

Blackstone's Platform Engineering Team is responsible for providing frameworks that empower 125+ developers to move faster with less risk across several different business units. As an engineer on the team, you will be responsible for developing new enhancements to our existing frameworks in addition to actively extending our capabilities with new ideas.

The position will involve deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters, full-stack development for our internal automation tools and Puppet manifest/module development. In addition, you will be researching and implementing technologies and workflows to drive the next wave of technology and development within Blackstone.

How a Blackstone Innovations career will have an impact on you:

* Great benefits: 401(k), health insurance, paid vacation
* Great perks: Gym discounts, free drinks/snacks/lunch, standing/treadmill desks, focus rooms
* You'll attend (and host) technology events and meetups around the city.
* You'll take advantage of many training opportunities
* You'll develop a deep understanding of the challenges facing corporate technology teams as they move to the cloud

Key responsibilities include:

* Build and maintain infrastructure using code-first approaches
* Build, maintain, and manage clusters for technologies like Kubernetes
* Support containerized workflows and applications
* Drive container adoption among developers and teams
* Work with development teams to migrate applications to containers
* Research and deployment of new technologies to continue moving the team and Blackstone forward
* Puppet Development
* Manifest creation and module development in Ruby
* Extending the in house Puppet development tooling


* Improving the software development process across teams
* Work with operations and development teams to understand pain points and to drive automation priorities

Qualifications:

* Capable of evolving and improving complex systems
* Hands on experience creating and managing Kubernetes clusters in different types of environments
* Experience with role based access control, secret management, monitoring and service discovery in k8's environment
* Bonus points for experience with Helm


* Strong cloud experience (AWS, Azure)
* Demonstrated ability migrating non-containerized applications to containers
* Bonus points for experience with Windows Containers


* Scripting languages such as Python or Ruby a plus
* Experience working with source control and CI/CD systems (Jenkins/TeamCity etc)
* Experience with a configuration management tool (Puppet preferred)
* Excellent troubleshooting skills on both Windows and Linux
* Excellent communication and organizational skills
* Desire to work in a heterogeneous ecosystem
* Passion for challenging the status quo

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or any other category protected by law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).

The Blackstone Group and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other classification prohibited by applicable law.

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About The Blackstone Group

Blackstone Group is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management, and financial services firm.

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5000 employees
The Blackstone Group

345 park avenue

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