Cloud Platforms Engineer, VP - Data, Cloud & Developer

Position: Cloud Platforms Engineer, VP - Data, Cloud & Developer Experience
## Cloud Platforms Engineer, VP - Data, Cloud & Developer Experience Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis.

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** Role Overview
** Blackstone’s Platform Engineering team delivers the firm’s next‑generation public cloud platform, enabling application teams to securely build, deploy, and operate critical workloads  platform is designed with a strong emphasis on software‑defined infrastructure, automation, developer experience, and supporting innovation across a global organization.

This role is a senior-level individual contributor position at the Vice President level, not a people manager. As a VP Platform Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader, building and advancing core platform capabilities, and working in close partnership with application teams, security stakeholders, and fellow engineers to enable reliable and secure delivery  will operate with a high degree of independence, applying strong software engineering principles and disciplined problem‑solving skills to design and evolve platform systems that operate at enterprise scale.

Clear, effective communication is essential—you are expected to document technical decisions, articulate trade‑offs, and explain solutions to stakeholders with varying levels of technical experience. Success in this role requires strong organizational skills and collaborating effectively across a large, globally distributed engineering organization.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Design, build, and evolve core platform services that underpin Blackstone’s public cloud environments, including AWS and Azure
* Develop and manage Terraform‑based infrastructure, including authoring reusable modules, operating Terraform Cloud, and improving usability and self‑service for platform consumers
* Own the design and implementation of critical platform components, from concept through production support
* Build and enhance self‑service capabilities and internal developer tooling that improve consistency and developer productivity
* Partner closely with cloud security and risk teams to ensure platforms are secure, compliant, and resilient by design
* Improve platform availability, resiliency, and recoverability through modern architectural patterns and deployment strategies
* Enhance observability, diagnostics, and operational supportability across the platform
* Serve as a trusted technical resource and mentor for junior-level engineers and consultants, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment through approachability, reliability, and subject‑matter expertise
* Work independently to gather requirements and design and implement solutions, while collaborating closely with cross‑functional partners (such as Application Security and SRE) to deliver platform capabilities as part of small, ad‑hoc teams within a large organization
* Maintain strong delivery discipline, including prioritization, backlog management, and execution tracking using Jira
* Participate in the team’s 24/7 on‑call rotation, typically approximately one week out of every four
* Stay current with evolving trends in platform engineering, cloud services, modern Dev Ops, and automation practices to guide platform evolution
** Required Qualifications
*** 7+ years of experience in a platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, Dev Ops, or similar individual contributor role, with demonstrated ownership of shared platforms used by multiple engineering teams
* Strong software development skills in Python or C#, with an emphasis on object oriented design and building and maintaining…