DevOps Engineer, AVP - Data, Cloud, and Developer Experience

About the role

Blackstone's DevOps Engineering team enables application teams to securely build, deploy, and operate workloads across public cloud environments. The team focuses on infrastructure automation, CI/CD, developer productivity, observability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
• Develop and operate CI/CD platforms and deployment automation, preferably GitLab CI/CD.
• Support compute platforms including VMs, containers, Kubernetes, managed container services, and serverless services.
• Build and enhance developer tooling, self-service capabilities, Dev Containers, Remote IDE solutions, and standardized development environments.
• Manage AI coding assistants, including Claude, and context management platforms such as MCP services for code and documentation workflows.
• Design and support cloud networking services including DNS, certificates, load balancing, CDN integration, routing, private connectivity, and hybrid networking.
• Improve platform reliability, observability, security, and operational efficiency through automation.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, or similar engineering roles.
• Strong programming skills in Python or C#, with an emphasis on maintainable, production-quality automation and services.
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform, Terraform Cloud, reusable modules, state management, and IaC lifecycle operations.
• Experience operating AWS and/or Azure production environments.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD and deployment automation platforms, preferably GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of containers, container orchestration, Kubernetes, managed container services, and serverless architectures.
• Experience with Dev Containers, Remote IDEs, standardized development environments, and self-service developer platforms.
• Strong understanding of DNS, TLS/SSL certificates, load balancing, CDNs, cloud networking, routing, private connectivity, and network troubleshooting.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, incident response, production support, and distributed system troubleshooting.
• Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills; proficiency with Jira or similar delivery tracking tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits;
• Paid time off;
• Life insurance;
• 401(k) plan;
• Discretionary bonuses.

Pay

Expected annual base salary range: $160,000 - $200,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location.

For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate the needs of the role and the team.