Key Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm
Incorporating observability standards into code and deployment pipelines.
Evolving the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams
Partnering with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to improve service reliability and operational efficiency
Assisting developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants.
Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners
Ensuring monitoring and alerting that reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations
Implementing strategic observability tools and working to control overhead in maintenance and cost
Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact
Using automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention
Fostering a blameless culture while assisting in postmortem discussions and reporting
Qualifications
Ability to write automation scripts, as well as read and troubleshoot code (Python, C#, Typescript, etc.),
Make effective use of coding assistants and chat models (Anthropic, Open AI)
Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience required, preferred Azure experience)
Configuration as code, infrastructure management, and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab CI)
Hand on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS
Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux, Windows, and Networking
Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc)
Comfortable under pressure with incident management and collaborating during postmortems
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Curiosity and drive to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownerships
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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