BXTI- Enterprise Technology, Sr. Network Engineer

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 $881 billion 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, Twitter, and Instagram.

Blackstone Technology & Innovations

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 mean 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.

Job Description:

Blackstone's Global Network Engineering team provides best-in-class operations and execution capabilities to Blackstone, creating and maintaining IT networks for the business, as well as providing key support functions.

Within BXTI, we work closely with multiple teams such as SRE (Service Reliability and Engineering), PE (Platform Engineering), SAE (Server Application Engineering), and EUC (End User Computing) to focus on excellent customer service and creating operational efficiencies through process improvements and system implementations

Our team is responsible for the design, implementation and operational support of the networking technology backbone that supports Blackstone's applications and platforms as well as the Corporate Infrastructure.

Serving internal and external clients, we work with cutting-edge yet easy to use platforms to create efficiencies and transparency into Blackstone and our broader community of investors, portfolio companies, etc.

Every member of the team participates throughout the lifecycle of projects and product rollouts. There are no silos or other walls preventing you from learning and growing to meet your career goals. We actively mentor our team to be the people who stand up and challenge the status quo and work together to come up with the best answers.

As a member of the BXTI Networking Services team at Blackstone, you will work with a group of talented individuals in a highly team-oriented environment to create the next generation of innovative solutions for Blackstone and the financial community at large.

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will work closely with all stakeholders during the conceptual, design, development, production, and training stages of each project. You will be architecting network solutions, in addition you need to be able to discuss, manage, and document your work and facilitate decisions effectively to varied audiences.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities for the role include:

• Drive strategic decisions for major initiatives.
• Collaborating cross-team to build and maintain detailed user personas as a foundation to future technology rollouts.
• Effectively communicating research findings, conceptual ideas, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
• Assist in migrating functions and networks to private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Design, plan and implement client-specific cloud solutions.
• Ensure the cloud network is responsive to user demands including troubleshoot issues which arise.
• Work with various vendors on problem tickets and drive vendors to resolution and root cause.
• Ensures optimum efficiencies for the utilization cloud services and on premises network infrastructure.
• Automation/orchestration of the network environment using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, and Python.
• Monitoring bandwidth utilization of cloud and on premises network infrastructure including WAN circuits. Ensure proper tracking and planning bandwidth trends to proactively increase throughput where needed.
• Develop and maintain appropriate system documentation to ensure that documentation is current.
• Design and specification of technical requirements for high visibility, firmwide technology initiatives using participatory and iterative design techniques including user interviews, usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery.
• Presenting solutions to a technology review board to inform and gain approval from key stakeholders in security, infrastructure, platform engineering, etc. teams.
• Iterating on designs based on user feedback and technology constraints.
• Discussing, presenting, and documenting designs and design decisions effectively to varied audiences.
• Leading the product rollout process by driving decisions, tracking issues, and assisting in time estimation.
• Establishing team and product level roadmaps to help team define scope, deliverables, schedule, and workstreams.

Qualifications:

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. You will need:

• Strong knowledge of AWS networking fundamentals including transit gateway, and VPC configuration components such as route tables (attachments, associations and propagations), subnetting, elastic IP, and elastic network interfaces
• Experience and operational knowledge for various connectivity options available in AWS such as direct connect services, TGW peering, VPC private link, VPC peering, VPC endpoint services, Internet gateways, NAT gateways, VPN gateways, and transit gateway connect
• Comprehensive understanding of network services and networks such as TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VRF, GRE, IPSEC, Spanning-Tree, VLANs, 802.1q, QoS
• Experience with engineering data center and IP backbone networks in a multi-vendor, multiprotocol environment, including networks based on Fiber/Optical, Ethernet WAN links
• Expert level configuration of Cisco routers and switches including: 4500, 3850, 9000, and ASR 1000 series
• Ability to design, implement and troubleshoot Wi-FI solutions
• Expertise on VPN and Firewalls
• Strong working knowledge of terraform and understanding of CICD workflow process/tools such as GIT and terraform enterprise for the purpose of maintaining infrastructure as code of AWS networking components
• Working knowledge with Ansible, Python, YAML, and JSON.
• Proven outstanding communication (written and verbal), presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills.
• The abilities to work collaboratively with multiple groups in a variety of settings and listen, articulate positions, and advocate designs.
• Impeccable project management and implementation skills and the ability to drive process changes.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• The ability to understand user motivations and translate business problems, processes, and insights into actionable items that will develop a technology design.

Requirements:

To be considered for the Senior Network Engineer role, applicants must meet any of the following criteria:

• 3+ years equivalent experience managing technology projects.
• 2+ years of intermediate Cloud technologies experience (such as AWS)
• Extensive experience with Networking experience (TCP/IP, UDP,)
• Strong experience with Troubleshooting / Support experience
• Experience with automation leveraging tools such as Ansible and Python
• Understanding of container technologies
• Ability to outline and quantify user requirements, project costs, and end value to make metric-driven decisions.
• A successful track record of juggling multiple projects on tight deadlines without compromising quality.
• Proven experience with product ownership and application knowledge throughout the complete software development life cycle.
• Proven experience launching and governing projects and programs to ensure the completion of technology projects.
• Experience working with cloud technologies and moving from on-prem to cloud solutions is preferred.
• Experience managing internal and external stakeholders and leading project prioritization to drive product vision and roadmap.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully rollout products and drive user adoption.
• Experience with Agile Project Management methodologies is required.
• A self-starting, entrepreneurial attitude and willingness to work through all obstacles to accomplish tasks.
• A desire to learn and grow as a professional.
• A degree in one of the following disciplines: Technology and/or Engineering is preferred.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

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