Prudential

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Posted on: 4 Apr 2021

Newark, NJ

Job Description

Prudentials Global Technology team is the spark that ignites the power of Prudential for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly-skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to 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 the Global Technology organization at Prudential, youll unlock a challenging and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.

Job Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include:

* Responsible for creating, adapting, and maintaining system configurations for applications which are running on cloud platforms

* Understand business needs and translate those to cloud-native attributes like scalability, reliability, performance, and on-demand service

* Leverage industry acknowledged software tools and methodologies and make use of them in cloud native use cases

* Simplify the process of providing instances of organizations products by leveraging open-source solutions and automation pipelines

* Responsible for creation and deployment of detailed CloudFormation stacks throughout the product lifecycle.

* Documentation of newly deployed environments for ongoing operational support

* Deployment and troubleshooting of infrastructure code

* Ability to quickly pickup and understand where newly released cloud services would be appropriate for business applications

Technical Qualifications

* Fluent in JSON or YAML syntax

* Ability to diagnose and debug complex problems in production environments spanning public and private clouds

* AWS container deployments including ECS Fargate

* KMS Key creation and understanding of the service

* Knowledge of IAM- Policy creation and troubleshooting

* Understanding of AWS serverless architectures and services

* Understanding of Bitbucket and code review

* Knowledge of AWS networking, service catalog, encryption methods and best practices

* AWS Security Group knowledge and creation

* CloudWatch logs and alarms creations and knowledge

* Understanding of Autoscale groups with SSL certificates

* Technical understanding of RDS and deployment options

* Knowledge of Secrets Manger and Parameter store and basic AWS services (EC2 and S3)

* Systems Manager automation documents

* Understanding of AWS / assumed roles

* Strong understanding of developing and testing highly available systems with appropriate considerations for disaster recovery

* AWS CLI including Boto3 and CloudFormation

General Qualifications

* MS/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

* Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale cloud-based infrastructure

* Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time in a SAFe Agile operating model

* Working with external vendors to help drive solutions

* A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

* Excellent communication, presentation, and reasoning skills

* Three years' experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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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.

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES:
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, which may include an assessment, please call (800) 433-8960, prompt 4 or email accommodation.h&w@prudential.com.

Please note that the above number and email are solely for individuals with disabilities requesting an accommodation. If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email careers@prudential.com to request assistance.

Prudential

Newark, NJ

Prudential Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services. It operates through PGIM, U.S. Workplace Solutions, U.S. Individual Solutions, and International Insurance divisions. The PGIM division offers an array of asset management and advisory services related to public and private fixed income, public equity and real estate, commercial mortgage origination and servicing, and mutual funds and other retail services to institutional, private, and sub-advisory clients, as well as to insurance company separate accounts, government sponsored entities, and the general account.

The U.S. Workplace Solutions division provides a range of retirement investment, and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors; and group life, long-term and short-term group disability, and group corporate-, bank-, and trust-owned life insurance in the United States, primarily to institutional clients for use in connection with employee plans and affinity groups.The U.S. Individual Solutions division develops and distributes individual variable and fixed annuity products, principally to the mass affluent and affluent markets; and individual variable, term, and universal life insurance products to the mass middle, mass affluent, and affluent markets in the United States.

The International Insurance division develops and distributes individual life insurance, retirement, and related products to the mass affluent and affluent markets in Japan, Korea, and other foreign countries, as well as middle income and mass affluent markets. The company offers its products and services to individual and institutional customers through its proprietary and third-party distribution networks. Prudential Financial, Inc. was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.