Lead, Infrastructure Security Engineer - IAM and Cloud

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 Lead Infrastructure Security Engineer on the Global Technology IAM Team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to architect, develop and improve IAM solutions. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to 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.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining features, 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.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and ISO to enhance the IAM vision, ensuring alignment with the EA standards and ISO policies.
• Lead the design, implementation, and management of IAM services capabilities and services for customer and workforce facing solutions.
• Develop and enforce security policies, standards, and best practices, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate security into enterprise applications & automation.
• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove technical impediments
• Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable Prudential standards.
• Innovating, designing, and building DevOps solutions for the enterprise. Drive continuous quality by integrating code quality, security, and automated testing capabilities; remove technical impediments.
• Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems
• 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.
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, SpringBoot, Node.js frameworks

The Skills & Expertise You Bring
• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields.
• Certified AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
• Certified AWS DevOps Professional.
• Certified AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
• Experience in DevSecOps practices and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in conducting security architecture reviews and providing recommendations for improvements.
• Profound understanding of web-based technologies including multi-tier applications and security standards (HTTP, TLS, REST/SOAP, Cookie Handling, SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, …)
• Knowledge of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) tools.
• Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
• Experience standing up production grade infrastructure in AWS involving AWS EKS, ECS Fargate, Secrets Manager and CloudWatch using IaaS code practices.
• Experience deploying Java Spring Boot apps to AWS EKS and ECS.
• Experience integrating quality and security tools in the CI/CD pipelines like SonarQube and CheckMarx.
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
• Experience with agile dev