Senior Cloud Engineer- Cloud Governance
Prudential Financial
- Newark, NJ
- $105,100-156,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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; actively code against the roadmap
- Actively work with the team to identify and execute on automation ideas and process improvements
- 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 an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to see opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
- Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
- Increase governance transparency through automated dashboards
- Maintain several of our repositories including Confluence and SharePoint environments
- Collaborate with business units and engineers to stay abreast of new products and features and integrate into training materials
- Track and report, training-related metrics and KPIs and continuously drive improvement against KPIs
- Support the evaluation of Prudential’s cloud cost management processes and tools to identify optimization opportunities
- Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages and Ansible, CloudFormation and Terraform frameworks
- Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
- Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
- Experience with agile development methodologies
- Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of our business
- Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
- Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
- Applied experience with several of the following:
- Understanding of cloud billing and metering and the impact of usage patterns on total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Working knowledhe of PowerBI/Tableau
- Experience providing chargeback, showback, budgeting and forecasting as core capabilities of cloud financial management
- 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 other common Communication Protocols: OSI Model, 3 Way Handshake, Stateful vs Stateless, Proxy Firewall
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development
- Test/Quality capabilities & methodologies (functional & nonfunctional) and associated tooling including quality automation
- Infrastructure & Cloud Security best practices including DevSecOps
- Dev Ops Tools & Practices: awareness, understanding of DevOps automation tools, practices & capabilities (continuous integration & continuous delivery)
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Development and Design Fundamentals including SDLC and coding standards
- Cloud Computing: Understanding and knowledge (of 1 or more): AWS, Azure or GCP
- Cloud service consumption
- Disaster Recovery and High Availability
- Finance/Insurance industry experience is a plus not a must
- 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.
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