The Database Operations Team is an integral part of Platform Operations (PO) which sits under the broader Aladdin Product Group. Platform Operations is responsible for operating and engineering the reliability, stability and performance of the firm's financial systems including Aladdin and ensuring its availability to our business partners and customers.
Our team's primary focus is to ensure continuous availability of BlackRock's critical transaction processing, data warehousing, data replication and distributed data processing platforms.
Your role and impact
Data is the backbone of any world-class financial institution. We ensure the resiliency and integrity of that data, while providing instantaneous access to a large global user base at BlackRock and across many Institutional Clients. As preeminent specialists on database technology, our team is involved in every facet of system design, implementation, tuning and monitoring, using a wide variety of industry-leading database technologies. The team develops its own solutions to provide analysis and insight and automate to scale.
Although the team's specialty is database technology, in order to excel in our role, we need to understand the environment that our technology operates in; understanding of the business needs, the application server stack, the interaction between the database software, the operating system and host hardware are significant factors allowing us to deliver the best service possible.
We are passionate about performance and innovation. From the top of the firm down, we embrace the diversity of values, identities and ideas brought forth by our employees and offer phenomenal flexibility to enhance work life balance
Your responsibilities
Engineering, Administration and Operations of OLTP, OLAP, Data Warehousing database platforms and distributed No-SQL platforms
Collaboration with Infrastructure teams, application developers and business teams across multiple time zones to ensure the highest quality service to the Aladdin users
Automation and Development of database operational, monitoring and maintenance toolsets to achieve the desired Scale and Efficiency
Database Configuration Management, Capacity and Scale Management, Schema Releases/Consistency, Security, Disaster Recovery and Audit Management
Management and ownership of Operational Incidents including root-cause analysis of critical issues, resolution and mitigation
You have
Experience with any database platforms like: Apache Cassandra, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Sybase ASE, Oracle, PostgreSQL and data warehouse platforms like SAP Sybase IQ, Greenplum and Snowflake
Exposure on Public Cloud Platform offerings like Microsoft Azure, Amazon (AWS) and Google (Google Cloud Platform)
Exposure to programming languages like Python, Perl, Java and Go; source control systems like GIT and Azure DevOps
Experience on Automation tools like Ansible/AWX; Operating Systems like Linux and Windows
A passion for interactive troubleshooting and operational support and keen attention to detail, critical thinking and the urge to drive innovation
Boundless creativity and a desire to constantly learn new technologies
A belief in data driven analysis and problem solving and knowledge and drive to scale technology to the needs of tomorrow
If any of this excites you, we want to talk to you about your new role in our team!
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
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.
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BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.
