Our Team:

The Global Corporate Technology Group is responsible for designing, deploying, and supporting Bloomberg’s enterprise IT systems. This includes our global corporate network plus all hardware, software and enterprise applications used by nearly 21,000 employees in more than 170 state-of-the-art offices around the world. We focus on enterprise solutions, productivity tools, and IT systems integration which helps move all of Bloomberg's businesses forward.

Server & Storage Engineering team drives the Compute and storage needs for all internal Bloomberg Businesses. The team manages the Storage Infrastructure as well as the Physical & Virtual server needs for Internal Businesses including our Datacenters, Corporate Locations & Remote Offices Worldwide. We Engineer our Infrastructure Systems from an Availability, Capacity & Security perspective which includes KPIs, SLAs and OLAs throughout our environments.

The Team is accountable for designing and deployment of multi-site infrastructure utilizing Windows (Server Operating Systems) & virtualization technologies such as v Sphere & ESXi. The team engineers & manages SAN & NAS infrastructure across various platforms including EMC (Isilon), Net App (FAS, AFF), Pure and Brocade switches. In addition the team manages various X86 platforms and converged infrastructure such as HP Servers, Flex Fabric. We maintain the infrastructure using a multitude of tools including One View, Grafana, Orion, v Center, Log Insight, Net App OCUM, Insight IQ and Splunk.

We collaborate across not only an information systems group, but also with other internal teams (including Security, RISK and CTO) to improve, secure and implement technologies at the server and storage level.

The Role:

• As a Senior Software Engineer, on the Compute and Storage Engineering team, you will be responsible for automating the provisioning, deployment, scaling, and monitoring of our compute & storage infrastructure platforms.
• Develop and maintain software tools to manage a large-scale, multi-vendor compute and storage platforms with an emphasis on automation, telemetry, and model-driven infrastructure as code
• Automate the full compute and storage platform lifecycle-including provisioning, configuration, observability, testing, troubleshooting, and capacity planning
• Write software utilizing orchestration systems to automate tasks and interact with other systems.
• You will be responsible for implementing innovative technologies, automating workflows, and crafting CI/CD automation pipelines.
• Practice and promote the use of a modern software development lifecycle.
• In this role, you will collaborate with Product Owners, Engineers, Developers, and Operations to find opportunities to improve automation and deployment solutions for the corporate infrastructure environment.

You’ll need to have:

• 4+ years of experience working with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, etc.)
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• Experience in infrastructure Automation or orchestration Frameworks e.g. Ansible, Airflow, Terraform, Chef, Salt.
• Experience building tools that automate and integrate with API REST and traditional IT Infrastructure components (virtualization, server, storage)
• A strong familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Pipelines (Jenkins, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with DevOps methodologies and IaC Automation tools such as Terraform or Puppet
• Experience driving full software creation process
• The ability to take ownership and responsibility of issues and handle them effectively to resolution
• Honest approach to problem-solving, and ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders and management

We'd Love to See:

• Understanding of Linux internals
• Good knowledge of network protocols, network administration and network security
• General experience with relational databases
• Experience working with GIT or other code repositories
• Good knowledge of storage protocols, storage administration and storage security
• Understanding Security fundamentals standard methodologies
• Experience implementing or working with server virtualization and storage infrastructure
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently