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Lead Infrastructure Developer (Network)

Prudential Financial
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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, 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 a Lead, Infrastructure Developer in Network Engineering, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to improve the Network Product.  You will develop software and automated solutions to manage the lifecycle of Cisco infrastructure as we solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus.  

 

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day   

  • Create, code and support solutions to automate the creation, management, or destruction of Cisco infrastructure; remove technical impediments.
  • Provide easily consumable services to software development teams to assist in the consumption of infrastructure solutions and partner to implement them.
  • Accelerate application development by building patterns of infrastructure services that are consumed 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 impact and support the goals.
  • Automate unit and integration test cases, solve problems and add new value with automation.
  • 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 a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
  • Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
  • Apply infrastructure fundamentals to Linux/Unix operating systems, database, network and TCP/IP, and common communication protocols.
  • Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Perl, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages and CloudFormation frameworks.

 

The Skills & Expertise You Bring 

  • Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields 
  • Experience implementing and managing Cisco networking infrastructure.  Routers, switches, wireless controllers, and firewalls.
  • Ability to coach others with minimal guidance effectively 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.
  • Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:
    • Programming Languages: Python, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages
    • Cisco Infrastructure:
      • Cisco Routers, Switches, Wireless Controllers, and Firewalls.
      • Cisco IOS
      • Network design principles
    • Frameworks: CloudFormation​​​​​​​​​​​ 
    • 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, Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Wireless controllers. ​
      • 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
  • Required Qualifications
    • Background in Network Engineering with Cisco infrastructure
      • LAN/WAN/Wireless/Authentication/Firewalls
      • Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, FTD, ASA
      • Administration of ISE AAA
      • Spine/leaf and hierarchal network design
    • Thorough understanding of network troubleshooting and design principles such as spanning-tree, Virtual Trunking Protocol, broadcast domains.
    • Proficiency programming in Python to manage Cisco infrastructure.
    • Current experience as an Infrastructure developer focused on network infrastructure.
  • Preferred Qualifications
    • Experience with Cisco ACI management
    • Experience with Cisco Firewall Management Console
    • Experience with Cisco Firepower.
    • Proficiency programming in Perl
    • Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must

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. 

 

What we offer you:

  • 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.

 

To find out more about our Total Reward package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.