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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Hybrid
About this role
YOUR TEAM
The Cyber Operations team is responsible for strengthening BlackRock’s cloud security posture and supporting the detection, investigation, and response to cloud-based security events. The team partners closely with cloud engineering, detection engineering, security tooling, threat response, and operations teams to improve visibility across cloud environments, enhance response readiness, and adapt to an evolving threat landscape. Team members play a key role in protecting critical cloud infrastructure through proactive monitoring, operational excellence, and continuous security improvement.
YOUR ROLE AND IMPACT
As a Vice President, Cyber Operations Cloud Response Engineer, you will help strengthen BlackRock’s cloud security operations by partnering across security and engineering functions to improve visibility, detection, investigation, and response capabilities within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. You will operate at the intersection of cloud engineering, incident response, detection engineering, and security tooling while helping the organization identify and mitigate cloud threats and improve operational readiness. This role offers the opportunity to influence the future of cloud security operations while supporting critical business and technology platforms.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and embrace the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies while challenging outcomes. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:
Enhance visibility across AWS environments by partnering with engineering and security teams to strengthen telemetry, logging, alerting, monitoring, and detection capabilities.
Partner with cloud and security platform teams to ensure AWS services, workloads, and integrations provide actionable telemetry that supports effective detection, investigation, containment, and response.
Investigate complex AWS security events and incidents while guiding containment, remediation, and evidence preservation activities.
Collaborate with cloud security and detection engineering teams to develop, integrate, tune, and optimize security capabilities, detections, and operational workflows.
Evaluate emerging cloud threats, participate in threat hunting and forensic investigations, and translate findings into enhancements to runbooks, detections, telemetry standards, and response processes.
Partner across security, cloud platform, and operations teams to improve response readiness, operational resilience, and cloud security effectiveness.
Support strategic cloud security initiatives that strengthen monitoring coverage, incident response capabilities, and operational maturity.
YOUR EXPERIENCE
8+ years of experience in security operations, cloud security, incident response, detection engineering, or a related cybersecurity discipline.
Deep hands-on experience securing, monitoring, investigating, and responding to incidents within AWS environments, including cloud-native logging, monitoring, and forensic capabilities.
Experience leveraging cloud security technologies and applying containment, remediation, and evidence-preservation techniques during security incidents.
Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, cloud identity, container security, and infrastructure automation concepts.
Proven ability to influence outcomes, solve complex operational problems, and communicate effectively across security, engineering, cloud platform, and operations teams.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to changing business needs, and effectively balance competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements that drive efficiency, scalability, and business impact.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk, document findings, and influence stakeholders across multiple functions.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred; cloud security or cybersecurity certifications are advantageous.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
Guidance on AI use for candidates
At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.
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