Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) – Analyst – Cybersecurity

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Business Group: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi)

Business Group Description:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.   

BXTi is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.  

Job Title: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) – Analyst – Cybersecurity

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Network Engineers and the outsourced COE team to ensure the safety, operation, reliability and security of Blackstone’s global network.
• Provide operational support and analysis for a diverse set of security events.
• Act as the first point of contact to determine the type and severity of incidents.
• Recommend appropriate actions, including escalation to senior staff.
• Provide Level 1, 2, and 3 support for day to day network security incidents and tickets.
• Work with the off-shore COE Team to provide oversight of global security network 24/365.
• Implement/ change/ remove security rules as needed across proxies, firewalls, and web filtering devices as needed.
• Manage network security policy administration on various network security products.
• Participate in security incident response through in-depth, technical (log, forensic, malware, packet, etc.) analysis.
• Collect security incident metrics and data to enable reporting to senior management.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in job offered or related occupations.
• Minimum 3 years of experience configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting Palo Alto Firewalls and managing Level 1, 2 and 3 support tickets for global companies.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing, configuring, and implementing AWS Cloud EC2 instances, Security Groups, NACLs, Route Tables.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Firewall Policy Optimization for advanced protection of company assets from threat actors.
• Minimum 3 years of experience using Service Now to create, modify, and close incidents / requests.
• Minimum 3 years of experience using Wireshark tool to analyze the complex packet captures to decode traffic and secure corporate network.
• Minimum 2 years of experience: Provisioning and Troubleshooting L3VPN, L2VPN, L2VLL, DIA, BIA internet circuits for enterprise customers as per service order assigned on core RDN and Reliance MEN network.
• Minimum 2 years of experience provisioning and troubleshooting on Nortel and Marconi equipment for E1, STM1 and STM4 circuits.
• Minimum 2 years of experience KLM provisioning and troubleshooting on Nortel and Marconi equipment.
• Minimum 2 years of experience provisioning and troubleshooting on Cisco routers and switches for L3VPN, L2VPN, L2VLL, DIA, BIA internet circuits.
• Experience can be concurrent.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.  All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.  Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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