Infrastructure Developer

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

3d

About The Position

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology & Operations team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions. Your Team & Role Join our Cloud Engineering Team as a Infrastructure Developer. In this role, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to build, automate, and support robust, secure cloud infrastructure solutions. You’ll develop hands-on experience in programming, networking fundamentals, and cloud architecture—all while collaborating with a team focused on delivering scalable, modern cloud environments to our customers. Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day • Create, code and support solutions to automate the creation, management, or destruction of infrastructure; with guidance, actively code against the roadmap • Provide easily consumable services to software development teams to assist in the consumption of infrastructure solutions and partner to implement them • Accelerate application development by building patterns of infrastructure services that are consumed self-service, resilient, reliant and in accordance with Prudential standards • Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact and support the goals • Automate unit and integration test cases, solve problems and add new value with automation • Develop corporate platform standards based on cost, capability and capacity requirements to drive business value; document solutions to support the adoption of developed solutions • Bring an understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to find opportunities to provide input to the team, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day • Work on problems of diverse scope in which analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors • Apply infrastructure fundamentals to Linux/Unix operating systems, database, network and TCP/IP, and common communication protocols • Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages and Ansible, CloudFormation and Terraform frameworks

Requirements

• Programming experience (Python, shell scripting, Groovy, or similar modern languages)
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, OSI model, protocols, firewall concepts)
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and practices (automation, CI/CD pipelines)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks (Ansible, CloudFormation, or Terraform)
• Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems
• Awareness of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP); hands-on experience is a plus
• Ability to learn new technologies and solve problems independently
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and coding standards

Responsibilities

• Create, code and support solutions to automate the creation, management, or destruction of infrastructure; with guidance, actively code against the roadmap
• Provide easily consumable services to software development teams to assist in the consumption of infrastructure solutions and partner to implement them
• Accelerate application development by building patterns of infrastructure services that are consumed self-service, resilient, reliant and in accordance with Prudential standards
• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact and support the goals
• Automate unit and integration test cases, solve problems and add new value with automation
• Develop corporate platform standards based on cost, capability and capacity requirements to drive business value; document solutions to support the adoption of developed solutions
• Bring an understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to find opportunities to provide input to the team, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on problems of diverse scope in which analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors
• Apply infrastructure fundamentals to Linux/Unix operating systems, database, network and TCP/IP, and common communication protocols
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages and Ansible, CloudFormation and Terraform frameworks

Benefits

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed