Cloud SRE & Data Observability Engineer

Blackstone

City of Westminster

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

2 days ago

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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.