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Prudential Ins Co of America DevOps Solutions Engineer in Newark, New Jersey

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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, youll unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds 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
Experience with the following:
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, MySQL
Unit, interface and end user testingconcepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)
Automated testing
Accessibility awareness
Software security skillsincludingsecure 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, Jenkins
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques
AWS Core Services: AWS Services such as CloudWatch, Code-Deploy
Preferred 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
Bachelors degree
Youll 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, well help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. Youll 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...

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