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Business Unit Overview:

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.

Role:

The Cloud Network Engineer plays a critical role owning the engineering, optimization, and advanced troubleshooting of Blackstone’s network security infrastructure. This position is responsible for ensuring the reliability and scalability of our network security platforms and requires deep technical expertise across network, cloud, and DevOps domains.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer, deploy, and support network security infrastructure within our Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture, including secure web gateways, zero trust network access, cloud access security brokers, firewalls, and cloud-based network controls.
• Leverage networking expertise to provide advanced operational support for network security tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues escalated from L1/L2 support teams.
• Lead deployments, upgrades, and enhancements. Design and evaluate new solutions to meet evolving technology and security requirements.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions to ensure optimal performance and availability.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive network documentation, including diagrams, configurations, and procedures.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Proven experience designing, engineering, and implementing network security solutions or similar network tools.
• Prior experience leading major incidents, collaborating with related teams, and managing stakeholders.
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure management, knowledge of cloud network architectures.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code frameworks and automation scripting.
• Solid knowledge of routing, switching, network protocols, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience with network monitoring and management tools, and observability tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience.
• Excellent communication and collaboration for both technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Highly organized, effectively prioritizes and manages uncertainty.
• Skilled in managing stakeholder expectations and project delivery.
• Adaptable, proactive learner, adjusts well to change.
• Detail-oriented, thorough in reviewing and identifying gaps in solutions.
  
  

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.

Expected annual base salary range:

$125,000 - $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.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please email Human Resources at [email protected].

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.
  
  

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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