Lead Cloud Engineer – Observability

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

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About The Position

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology 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 As a Lead, Cloud Engineer on the Cloud Observability Team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to improve the centralized logging platform. You will design, plan, administer, develop, or maintain applications in cloud-based environments as we solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Ability to coach other with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
• Advanced experience and/or deep expertise in several of the following:
• Cloud Approved Services: compute, containers, serverless, storage, network, data, integration, event management, logging, alerting, security, AI/ML, database, analytics, and content delivery
• Programming Languages: Python, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages
• Frameworks: Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform
• Infrastructure fundamentals Linux / UNIX Operating Systems: File Permissions, Network Configuration, Services, Process Manipulation
• Database Fundamentals: Schemas, Tables, Permissions, SQL
• Networking, TCP/IP and other common Communication Protocols: OSI Model, 3 Way Handshake, Stateful vs Stateless, Proxy Firewall
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
• Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development
• Test/Quality capabilities & methodologies (functional & nonfunctional) and associated tooling including quality automation
• Infrastructure & Cloud Security best practices including DevSecOps
• Dev Ops Tools & Practices: awareness, understanding of DevOps automation tools, practices & capabilities (continuous integration & continuous delivery)
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Development and Design Fundamentals including SDLC and coding standards
• Cloud Computing: Understanding and knowledge (of 1 or more): AWS, Azure or GCP Cloud service consumption
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability
• Log Management: Cribl, AWS Cloudwatch, Azure Log Analytics, Splunk

Nice To Haves

• Finance/Insurance industry experience is a plus not a must

Responsibilities

• Deliver computing services in cloud-based environments like AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure.
• Develop and support solutions to automate the creation, management, or destruction of infrastructure; remove technical impediments
• 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 a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
• 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: Mid Level