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 DevOps Solutions Engineer, you bridge the gap between developers and our centralized DevOps platform.  You will listen to development teams and provide technical solutions to solve their challenges.  This role is charged with identifying feature gaps with our DevOps platform and drive our product teams for enhancements. The candidate will need a combination of technical knowledge, problem solving skills, and a customer delivery mindset.  You represent the “voice of the customer” and will be measured against our customers’ success.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

•Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; with guidance, actively code against the roadmap

•Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable 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 

•Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems  

•Bring an understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide feedback to the team, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day  

•Work on problems of diverse scope in which analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors

•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

• 2+ years of experience in software development or DevOps

• Ability to communicate software development best practices and industry trends

• Understanding of source control and git - branching schemes, merge types, conflict resolutions

• Knowledge of CI/CD orchestration tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

• Familiarity with various DevOps domains:

    * Software development processes (Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Shell, .NET, C++, IaC, CasC)

    * Developer tools (Visual Studio Code, Homebrew)

    * Issue tracking and versioning (Jira)

    * Package managers (pip, npm, NuGet)

    * Build tools (Gradle, Maven, Docker, MSBuild, make)

    * Artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, Nexus)

    * Deployment tools (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Spinnaker)

    * Infrastructure and deployment targets (cloud, datacenters, containers, SaaS, PaaS)

• Strong verbal communication skills to address both the development community and business leaders

• Documentation skills to publish user guides, defects, feature requests, and architecture designs

• Ability of collaboration to develop roles/responsibilities maps and process workflows

• Excellent initiative, curiosity, interpersonal and problem-solving skills

• Ability to perform within a scrum team as well as working independently

Knowledge/understanding of the following:Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQLUnit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)Automated testingAccessibility awarenessSoftware security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)Dev Ops Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, JenkinsSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniquesAWS Core Services: AWS Services such as CloudWatch, Code-DeployPreferred qualifications:

• Familiarity in application development (Python, Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Go)

• Familiarity in UX/UI or front-end web design

• Familiarity in reporting and Business Intelligence tools

• Familiarity in API development and microservice architecture

• Familiarity with application security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA, xSPM)

• Financial services and insurance industry experience

• Bachelor’s degree

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.

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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 $83,000.00 to $123,400.00. 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.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ and its affiliates.

Note that this posting is intended for individual applicants. Search firms or agencies should email Staffing at staffingagencies@prudential.com for more information about doing business with Prudential.

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