Director, Cloud Engineer

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 Director, Cloud Engineer in Financial and Actuarial Technology, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to improve Trading, Risk and Actuarial modeling 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 deep 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.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day 

• 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 complex technical impediments

• Develop practices for infrastructure consumption, 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 deep understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, give technical direction to team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day

• Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables and may impact future concepts, products or technologies

• 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

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The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields 
• Ability to lead independently 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 
• Significant 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