Jobs at BlackRock – Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description:

Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most advanced financial companies and also being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Act as a culture carrier and leader, passing on SRE knowledge and best practices to the DEV team
• Design and implement end-to-end monitoring solutions for Application and Infrastructure components, based on cutting edge SLO-based telemetry tools
• Provide embedded team feedback to set overall SRE priorities
• Drive detailed root cause investigations for production incidents with rigorous focus on issue avoidance
• Code base contributions. For example, adding custom Telemetry metrics
• Lead ongoing deployment reviews to ensure software meets production standards
• Additional core engineering functions, such as:
• Drive the engineering of capacity management and demand forecasting solutions
• As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with core Aladdin product development Team, acting as the execution arm and point of contact for the centralized SRE team
• Drive priority setting of the DEV team
• Improve Engineering culture by encouraging continuous focus on reliability across the entire application lifecycle
• Create/coordinate retros for significant incidents
• Proactive participant in architectural and design decisions

Job Requirements:

• Experience with troubleshooting performance issues
• A passion for providing engineering support for highly available, performant full stack applications with a “Student of Technology” attitude
• Passion to work in a team-environment, multi-tasking and effective communication skills
• Experience with relational database and NoSQL Database (e.g. Apache Cassandra)
• Good hands-on object-oriented programming experience in Java, including proficiency in object-oriented principles and design patterns
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills
• Experience with CI/CD practices
• Self-motivated
• B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline with 5 – 8 years of experience
• Demonstrated ability to build positive relationships
• Knowledge of software development methodologies (analysis, design, development, testing) and basic understanding of Agile / Scrum methodology and practices

Job Details:

Company: BlackRock

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: New York, NY, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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