Vice President, System Engineer | Senior Engineer Vulnerability Management

About the position Technology & Operations BlackRock is one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world's capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs. Team Overview This position requires hands on knowledge of Linux operating system, server technologies & cloud platforms. Should have a basic knowledge of industry hardware types and interoperability & have a basic understanding of application software. Person in this role must be able to work with other vulnerability management system administrators in their team & global locations. The person may also be called upon to work with other team colleagues regarding builds, updates, testing and sharing results. Provide operational support for legacy, current and emerging technologies. The global APG Platform UNIX team is a sizable team of over 50 individuals located in six different regions that support a highly available UNIX environment hosted on prem & on cloud. We are looking for a Linux Engineer who can work with the global team to support and manage Unix products and services hosted on cloud and on-prem environments. And for the Vulnerability & Configuration Management role: We are seeking expertise in Vulnerability & Configuration Management to perform VR, provide a contact point for VR in AMRS region & assist with server builds, maintenance tasks, and necessary upgrades as part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen our infrastructure. The individual in this role will work a Tuesday through Saturday schedule. Responsibilities • Primarily responsible for the OS vulnerability management for 12000+ hosts located globally, running RedHat Enterprise Linux. • Responsible for patching hosts following a defined schedule. • Represent or host calls with other stakeholders & management. • Responsible for the review & remediation of vulnerabilities assigned to the Platform Systems team via scans. • Review & development of processes & automation (AWX, Ansible, SCCM). • Review dashboards & reports for new & the rollout status of existing vulnerabilities. • Server builds, monitoring, configuration and ongoing maintenance of servers. • Perform system administration duties across the environment to provide support services for customer. • Perform system recoveries. • Maintain server availability for all sites and periodically participate in DR exercises. • Resolve help desk escalations and process items in a ticket queue. • Troubleshoot and resolve system issues and provide operations support for bridge calls. • Participate in the development and implementation of related projects. • Monitor servers and remediate alerts that get raised. • Follow documented processes and procedures. Requirements • Knowledge of RHEL 7/8 - other Linux distro's a bonus. • Experience in Cloud Environments, with a preference for Azure, though AWS or Google Cloud knowledge is also valuable. • Familiarity with modern DevOps / CI/CD and SRE principles/techniques is required. • Experience with OS Build/ Kickstart/ Terraform. • Experience with LVM, Veritas Volume Management and Clustering: LVM, VxFS, VCS & VVR preferable. • Good automation experience with Ansible & Shell with Perl, Cutover or python is a plus. • Good experience of Puppet Server hardware (HPE, Dell) VMWare Kubernetes. • Details knowledge of TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, LDAP, FTP, NTP, Autofs. • Security and performance monitoring and analysis. • Understanding of change & incident management processes. • Conceptual knowledge of storage and networking components. • Minimum of 8+ years comparative industry experience. • Must be able to communicate clearly at all levels. • Degree preferred. Benefits • Strong retirement plan. • Tuition reimbursement. • Comprehensive healthcare. • Support for working parents. • Flexible Time Off (FTO). • Annual discretionary bonus. Apply tot his job