Lead, DevOps Engineer -- Atlassian Integrations

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 DevOps Engineer on our Atlassian tooling team in the Agile Enablement Office you will partner with product owners, tech leads, software engineers and delivery professionals to improve our Agile planning and execution tooling suite.  You will produce automation solutions that enable us to 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.   

• Develop the integration and automation for Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Jira Align) to enhance collaboration and productivity across teams 

• Drive continuous quality by integrating code quality, security, and automated testing capabilities; remove technical impediments 

• Introduce automation that will inspire change and drive agile transformation 

• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining features, leads in defining technical design. Helps 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 capability, functional, 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.   

• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, JavaScript, Shell Scripting 

The Skills & Expertise You Bring  

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

• Ability to coach others with minimum 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)   

• 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 expertise in the several of the following:  

  • Atlassian product administration, including Jira and Confluence. Jira Align is a plus. 

  • Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development  

  • Dev Ops Tools & Practices: DevOps automation tools, practices & capabilities, continuous integration & continuous delivery 

  • DevOps Platform: Industry standard CI/CD solutions, platforms and tools (Atlassian, Jenkins, GitHu