Platform Engineer, Assistant Vice President

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Blackstone's Platform Engineering Team is responsible for providing the next generation public cloud platform that supports numerous diverse workloads and helps empower and accelerate innovation at the firm. As the platform is built with a strong bias towards software-defined infrastructure and automation techniques, platform engineers will be tasked with leveraging software engineering principles and best practice cloud infrastructure patterns to solve critical problems and provide meaningful enhancements.

The position involves extending the existing platform and providing new capabilities to solve numerous problem domains. As an engineer on the team, you will be involved in the design, implementation, and support of public cloud infrastructure, processes, and core components relied upon by applications across the firm. Team members will also be challenged with tracking developments in exciting areas like containerized runtimes, CI/CD, and serverless computing in order to keep the platform evolving in powerful and impactful directions.

Key Responsibilities

• Leverage infrastructure-as-code frameworks to provision and maintain cloud resources.
• Design, build, and maintain critical systems for IaC, CI/CD, and multi-cloud deployments.
• Partner with cloud security teams to harden and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Provide tooling and automated solutions to enable self-service.
• Improve availability, resiliency, and recoverability of key systems by leveraging modern configuration management, deployment methods, and architectural patterns.
• Work closely with DCDX teams to enable runtime environments that provide container and serverless solutions.
• Enhance observability and supportability of the public cloud platform.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in a similar role or function, demonstrating expertise and capability in platform engineering, including designing, building, and maintaining scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions.
• Specialist in managing Terraform Cloud, GitLab, and Artifactory.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, both technical and problem-solving.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts and web services (Python, C#, TypeScript).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Sentinel).
• Hands-on experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure).

Company Information

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. 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 $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, 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 LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) 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.

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development means 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.