Lead DevOps Engineer (VP)
BlackRockLondon, England, United Kingdom • United States
Posted September 17, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
BlackRock helps people experience financial well-being by connecting people with the resources and tools they need to manage their most important goals, including retirement planning, education savings, and home purchases.
Job Description
Preqin is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to operate and support its infrastructure, middleware, and CI/CD systems. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining fault-tolerant and secure systems to improve observability and automation. It's a key part of their revolutionising private markets data platform, leveraging Aladdin technology.
Requirements
- Experience with Amazon AWS cloud administration (EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling Groups, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Security Groups)
- Expertise in containerisation within Kubernetes and Docker
- Familiarity with Configuration Management tools (Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity/Jenkins/Concourse)
- Hands-on experience with programming/scripting (Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java, C#)
- Networking skills including routing, switching, DNS, firewalling, load-balancing, global traffic management
- Experience with persistence technologies (NoSQL/SQL, Kafka, SQS), HA/clustering
- Hands-on experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting platforms (ELK, CloudWatch, Fluentd)
- Comfort with Linux and Windows systems administration
- Knowledge of storage management (LVM, RAID) and security best practices
Benefits
- retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future
- access to education reimbursement
- comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being
- family support programs
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
