Job Information
Prudential Ins Co of America Senior Infrastructure Developer - Event Streaming Platform in Newark, New Jersey
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, 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 a Senior Infrastructure Developer with the Event Streaming Platform, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to build an infrastructure that will support event-driven architectural patterns across the entire organization. You will use event-driven programming to develop modern applications and infrastructure with decoupled components. In addition, you will contribute to non-functional implementations including standards for data governance and best-practice specifications for interoperable data engineering and design.
Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
Create, code and support solutions to automate the creation, management, or destruction of infrastructure.
Provide easily consumable service libraries to software development teams to assist in the consumption of infrastructure solutions and partner to implement them.
Define OpenAPI specificationsfor standardized API and code generation.
Accelerate application development by building patterns of infrastructure services that are self-service, resilient, reliant and in accordance with 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 impactand support the goals.
Automate unit and integration test cases, add new value with automation and code generation.
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 find 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 metrics, logs and data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
Apply infrastructure fundamentals for secure authentication and authorization of distributed services using standard protocols like OAuth2.
Use programming languages including but not limited to Java, Python, Node, Shell/Power scripting.
Integrate cloud SaaS providers as sources and sinks to implement event-driven workflows to enhance the extensibility of enterprise business solutions.
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
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 and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
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.
Experience with several of the following:
Programming Languages: Java, Python, Node, Shell/Power scripting
Frameworks: Terraform, GitHub Enterprise
Infrastructure fundamentals
Event Driven Architecture: Kafka, Event Bridge, CDC, Stream Processing
Data / Database Fundamentals: Schemas, Types, Formats (Avro, JSON), NoSQL, SQL, SerDes, Transactions, Replication, Security, Analytics
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
API Gateway and Authentication: Kong, Oauth2, JWT, SASL/SCRAM
Test/Quality capabilities & methodologies (functional & nonfunctional) and associated tooling including quality automation.
Knowledge/Understanding of the following:
Application Programming Interfaces (API): Reactive Programming, Event Sourcing
Infrastructure & Cloud Security 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 AWS.
Distributed Systems Architecture: Administration, instrumentation and management of multi-node clusters.
Disaster Recovery and High Availability
Preferred Qualifications
Financial/Insurance industry knowledge is a plus, not a must.
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.
What we offer you:
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 $107,700.00 to $160,500.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.
Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity