Associate DevOps Engineer, Preqin, a part of BlackRock
4+ days a week in office
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
Posted today
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
1001+ employees
Posted today
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help more and more people experience financial well-being. This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees.
Role
Who you are
- You have previously worked with Amazon AWS cloud administration, including services such as: EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling Groups, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and Security Groups.
- You possess expertise in containerisation within Kubernetes and Docker and are familiar with the pattern of Microservice Architecture. You can define container configuration and troubleshoot issues
- You’re an expert with configuration management technologies such as Terraform and/or Ansible, as well as associated paradigms such as Infrastructure as Code and Immutable Infrastructure
- You’re comfortable with building CI/CD pipelines in e.g. TeamCity/ Jenkins/ Concourse
- You have hands-on experience in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g. Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java, C#), within an SCM environment (e.g. Bitbucket, GitHub)
- You have good networking skills, including knowledge of routing & switching protocols as well as DNS, firewalling, load-balancing and global traffic management
- You are familiar with, and able to install, configure and manage various persistence technologies, including database technologies (NoSQL/SQL) and broker/ queuing systems (e.g. Kafka, SQS), including knowledge of HA/ clustering
- You are comfortable with various logging, monitoring and alerting platforms and have expertise in the usage (and, desirably, the deployment) of e.g. ELK, CloudWatch, Fluentd, to enable forensic log analysis and system tuning as well as data-driven performance analysis (i.e. SLI/ SLO) and capacity planning
- You are a competent Linux & Windows systems administrator (for multiple distributions), including storage management (e.g. LVM, RAID) and security best-practices e.g. SSH, SSL/TLS, HMAC, IPS/IDS
What the job involves
- Use your site reliability expertise to design, operate and support Preqin’s infrastructure, middleware and internal services. Improving their performance, availability, scalability, latency and efficiency
- Drive technical excellence in everything we do, fostering a culture of data-driven reliability, monitoring and automation, following SRE best-practices
- Work alongside development teams to design and build scalable and high available services, while establishing effective build frameworks for continuous deployment and self-service automation
- Work on incident resolution and engage with various teams (including 3rd parties) for support escalation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Preqin is a London-based investment data company empowering the alternative asset market with essential data and insights. Supporting customers throughout the entire investment lifecycle, Preqin provides critical information leading to analytical solutions. Its customers use Preqin's vast database for due diligence, benchmark performance, market research and investment opportunity analysis.
Private markets are the fastest-growing sector in asset management, and by 2030, alternative assets are predicted to reach a valuation of nearly $30 trillion. Preqin has produced advanced methods of collecting private data for 20 years. Its products allow a customer base of over 200,000 professionals to streamline how they raise capital, source deals and investments, understand performance, and stay informed.
Recognising its value, BlackRock acquired Preqin in 2025, empowering both to strengthen access to the private markets. Preqin is working with software providers, world-renowned institutions, and industry associations around the globe to build innovative products, tools, and research that help connect data to critical decisions. It's had a successful history and, now partnered with BlackRock, will look to continue on a strong growth path ahead.
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Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"At Preqin, the work experience is marked by an high level of challenge and intellectual stimulation. The projects I've undertaken have been among..."
Company benefits
- Hybrid workplace & unlimited holiday allowance
- Parental leave: maternity & paternity leave policies
- Pension/retirement contributions: contributions are matched up to 14%, with only a 4% personal contribution needed
- Full medical insurance for you and your dependents, includes cover on pre-existing conditions.
- Annual health assessment
- Medicash and Dental Cover options
- Discounted gym membership
- Access to discount & reward programs
- Family forming benefit, to help you start a family on your terms.
Company values
- We are a fiduciary to our clients. This is the bedrock of our identity; it reflects our integrity and the unbiased advice we give our clients.
- We are One BlackRock. We work collaboratively to create the best outcomes for our clients, our firm and the communities where we operate.
- We are passionate about performance. We are relentless in innovating and finding better ways to serve our clients and improve our firm.
- We take emotional ownership. We have a deep sense of responsibility to our clients and to each other.
- We are committed to a better future. We are long-term thinkers, focused on helping people build a better tomorrow.
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
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