BXTI, Site Reliability Engineer - Data, Cloud & Developer Experience

Blackstone; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone’s Site Reliability Engineering team focuses on reliability across systems and services, collaborating with development to implement SRE practices, observability tooling, and automation to reduce manual work and improve efficiency.

You will deploy and maintain observability pipelines, participate in on-call rotations, and help mature operational practices while documenting postmortems and driving cost-effective reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Ability to write automation scripts, read and troubleshoot code (Python, C#, Typescript, etc).
• Make effective use of coding assistants and chat models (Anthropic, OpenAI).
• Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience required, preferred Azure experience).
• Configuration as code, infrastructure management, and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab CI).
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux, Windows, and Networking.
• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc).
• Comfortable under pressure with incident management and collaborating during postmortems.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Curiosity and drive to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownerships.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm.
• Incorporating observability standards into code and deployment pipelines.
• Evolving the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams.
• Partnering with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to improve service reliability and operational efficiency.
• Assisting developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants.
• Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners.
• Ensuring monitoring and alerting that reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations.
• Implementing strategic observability tools and working to control overhead in maintenance and cost.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact.
• Using automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention.
• Fostering a blameless culture while assisting in postmortem discussions and reporting.
• Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:
• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Skills

Automation scripts

Coding assist usage

AWS experience

Azure experience

Terraform

Puppet

GitLab CI

Docker

ECS

EKS

Linux troubleshooting

Windows troubleshooting

Networking

Observability tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Incident management

Postmortems

Communication

Organizational skills

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

Terraform

Puppet

Docker

Linux

Windows

Job description

Blackstone's Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for improving the reliability of systems and services to meet the needs of the business. This is achieved through collaboration with the development and engineering teams to leverage SRE practices and principles. You'll have the opportunity to identify and solve new problems as they arise, deploy and maintain observability systems and pipelines, mature the operations and support of services and platforms, and pursue emerging opportunities for efficiency and business value. This position involves the selection, implementation, and maintenance of key observability tooling. It requires ongoing evaluation of the firm's needs in observability, monitoring, alerting, resilience, and recovery. We work alongside service owners on design, implementation, and management of services for continuous improvement. We achieve the requisite reliability of services using clear definitions and measurable targets. We plan for and practice recovery from disaster scenarios and respond in real time to incidents. We guide the postmortem process in order to mitigate risks, prevent future disruptions, and improve the on-call experience. We aim to eliminate manual work, improve operational efficiency, and ensure the high quality outputs in all that we do.,

• Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm
• Incorporating observability standards into code and deployment pipelines.
• Evolving the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams
• Partnering with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to improve service reliability and operational efficiency
• Assisting developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants.
• Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners
• Ensuring monitoring and alerting that reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations
• Implementing strategic observability tools and working to control overhead in maintenance and cost
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact
• Using automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention
• Fostering a blameless culture while assisting in postmortem discussions and reporting, Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:
• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.

• Ability to write automation scripts, as well as read and troubleshoot code (Python, C#, Typescript, etc),
• Make effective use of coding assistants and chat models (Anthropic, Open AI)
• Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience required, preferred Azure experience)
• Configuration as code, infrastructure management, and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab CI)
• Hand on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux, Windows, and Networking
• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc)
• Comfortable under pressure with incident management and collaborating during postmortems
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Curiosity and drive to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownerships

  Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone's over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram.