About this role
Cloud Engineer - Aladdin Engineering - Edinburgh
BlackRock's Infrastructure Hosting – Cloud Engineering team is responsible for building, growing and maintaining the firm’s multi-cloud strategy. We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team and help enable adoption of Cloud technology across the firm. We are an interdisciplinary team focusing on providing capabilities from the Azure, AWS, GCP, and Oracle Clouds to our development community in a scalable, resilient, and secure manner. We are passionate about solving difficult problems through technology and are focused on utilizing IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and automation to tackle large scale challenges.
Our globally diverse team is excited for the opportunity to add a motivated, independent, curious, and skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help us grow! We want to see how our successful candidate will fit into our agile team and for them to impress our internal development teams with their expertise!
At BlackRock, we recognize that strength comes from diversity. Your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion will be embraced while the firm provides you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. You are a strong candidate when it comes to your ability to work in an international team. You will have experience in building cloud infrastructure while keeping security, cost, performance and complexity at top of mind.
As a Cloud Engineer you will:
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Work as part of our international, multidisciplinary team to build out our Cloud technology capabilities
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Drive our cloud technology products and strategies to delivery, taking onboard any feedback on our products/services and incrementally improve it
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Participate in our Agile ceremonies to help us deliver on our commitments to our customers
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Assist in solving complex issues with our cloud services & platform
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Be able to make other teams productive by producing well written user documentation and How To's
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Participate in solutions design reviews with new development teams to understand their requirements and ensure that our platform works for them.
What you'll need:
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3+ years' experience in provisioning, deploying and supporting cloud native applications & infrastructure in Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP, or OCI
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2+ years of Terraform experience with the ability to deliver complex infrastructure across Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP, or OCI
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2+ years of CI/CD experience using Azure DevOps (Preferred), GitLab, Jenkins
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2+ years of experience in systems automation via BASH, PowerShell, Python, Java, GoLang, etc.
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Experience in contributing to Agile teams so that everyone achieves their goals
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To demonstrate your experience of using cloud related networking and resources such as; VPCs, VCNs, Vnets, NSGs, Security Groups, etc.
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Experience with software deployment and orchestration technologies such as Helm, Docker, Kubernetes
Who you are:
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You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty when necessary, and you persevere where others do not
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Excited to bring order to cloud automation standards
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Passionate about crafting and evolving CI/CD pipelines with GitLab or GitHub following GitOps principles
Nice to have and opportunities to learn:
- Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
- Experience working in an agile development team or on open-source development projects.
- Experience with optimization, algorithms or related quantitative processes.
- Experience with DevOps and tools like Azure DevOps
- Experience with AI-related projects/products or experience working in an AI research environment.
- A degree, certifications or opensource track record that shows you have a mastery of software engineering principles.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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 more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
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What We Do
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We challenge businesses to reach higher standards. We use technology to think beyond what’s possible. We provide investment solutions for every need. We aim to simplify a complex world. We help chart paths towards financial health. We are BlackRock, and we are invested in your financial well-being.
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