.About this roleThe Aladdin product unites the information, people, and technology needed to manage money in real-time at every step in the investment process. Aladdin enables organizations to communicate better, work smarter, see clearer, and move faster in a changing landscape. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making and create connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.Your team:The Database Hosting Team is an integral part of Platform Hosting Services which sits under the broader Aladdin Engineering. Hosting Services is responsible for operating and engineering the reliability, stability and performance of the firm's financial systems including Aladdin and ensuring its availability to our business partners and customers.We are a globally distributed team spanning multiple regions and providing engineering & operational support for online transaction processing, data warehousing, data replication and distributed data processing platforms.Your role and impact:Data is the backbone of any world-class financial institution. The Database Hosting Team ensures the resiliency and integrity of that data, while providing instantaneous access to a large global user base at BlackRock and across many Institutional Clients. As preeminent specialists on database technology, our team is involved in every facet of automation, system design, implementation, tuning and monitoring, using a wide variety of industry-leading database technologies. We also develop code to provide analysis and insight and to automate & scale our solutions.We are passionate about performance and innovation. From the top of the firm down, we embrace the diversity of values, identities and ideas brought forth by our employees and offer phenomenal flexibility to enhance work life balance.Your responsibilities:The role requires providing operations, development, and project support within the global database environment across various database platforms. Key responsibilities of the candidate include:Operational support of a wide variety of database technologiesEngineering, Administration and Operations of OLTP, OLAP, Data Warehousing database platforms and Distributed No-SQL platforms.Collaboration with platforms teams, application developers and business teams across multiple time zones to ensure the highest quality service to the Aladdin users.Automation and Development of database operational, monitoring and maintenance toolsets to achieve the desired Scale and EfficiencyDatabase Configuration Management, Capacity and Scale Management, Schema Releases/Consistency, Security, Disaster Recovery and Audit ManagementManagement and ownership of Operational Incidents including root-cause analysis of critical issues, resolution, and mitigation