Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

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 Senior Cloud Engineer on Prudential’s cloud team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to improve Prudential’s public cloud environments. You will focus on delivering a tech-forward, secure, and reliable set of features to the organization’s application and infrastructure development teams who are focused on delivering new experiences and capabilities to internal and external customers.

Our cloud team is made up of a diverse set of engineers and developers who use their skills in DevOps, networking, information security, automation, software development, and beyond to shape the features that make up Prudential’s global cloud strategy.

Our Technology Stack

• Cloud landing zones in AWS and Azure.

• Cloud-native services for building application infrastructure, such as AWS SQS for message queues, S3 for object storage, and DynamoDB for database/document storage, ECS and EKS for container orchestration.

• Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Rego for defining policy-as-code.

• Git, Jenkins, Terraform Enterprise, and related tools for DevOps capabilities.

• JavaScript/React, Python/FastAPI, and similar frameworks for web front-end and backend development.

Your responsibilities as a Senior Cloud Engineer

• Develop, support, and continuously improve the infrastructure of our cloud-based environments like AWS and Microsoft Azure.

• Participate in peer-review of pull requests for proposed code changes. Similarly, respond to your peer’s feedback on your own proposed changes.

• 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.

• Incorporate unit and integration testing into our automations to enforce code quality; leverage code scanning and CSPM tools to ensure compliance with Prudential standards.

• Develop and enforce corporate platform standards based on cost, capability, and capacity requirements to drive business value while keeping our customers’ data secure; document solutions to support the adoption of developed solutions

• Bring an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, look for opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day.

• Apply infrastructure fundamentals to Linux/Unix operating systems, database, network and TCP/IP, and common communication protocols.

• Develop in Python, Bash/Shell scripting, React/NodeJS, Terraform, and CloudFormation.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• 3-5 years of working in a software development, infrastructure support, DevOps, or cloud-based technology environment.

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields.

• Diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives that benefit our cloud journey and the organization.

• Agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD) 

• 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.

• Applied experience with several of the following technologies. The cloud embraces a wide area of technology disciplines – and it’s not expected that everyone is an expert in all of them! However, the right candidate will be able to speak to one or more of these in depth while being able to demonstrate the ability to expand their knowledge into the others.

  • Software Development: Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), code review processes, automated CI/CD mechanisms, different testing mechanisms

  • Cloud Application Services: AWS and Azure preferred – understanding of how applications can be built using building blocks like message queues, document databases, state machines, object stores, event busses, etc.

  • Programming Languages: Java, Python, PowerShell, bash/shell scripting, JavaScript/React/NodeJS, OPA/Rego

  • Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform

  • Server Operating System Administration: Network configuration, security and logging, filesystem permissions, etc. for Windows and/or Linux

  • Container Platforms: Running Docker/LXC containers on container platforms like AWS ECS or a variant of a hosted Kubernetes (k8s) cluster such as EKS, AKS, GKE, etc.

  • Networking Fundamentals: Understanding of how data traverses a network. Be able to explain the various layers of the OSI model, and how different layers may relate to various security control points.

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can 

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you. 

What we offer you:

• 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

• Retirement plans:

• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)

• Company-funded pension plan

• Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, 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.

• Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.

• 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.

To find out more about our Total Reward package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

Note: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $105,100.00 to $156,500.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.