Lead, Infrastructure Developer - API Platform

ms, 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

• Design, develop, and maintain Kong custom plugins using Lua to meet Prudential API standards.

• Implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform for scalable and reliable environments.

• Creating Backstage templates to enhance developer experience and streamline development.

• Promoting Prudential API standards across the organization

• Collaborate with developers across the organization to understand their API requirements and assist in designing solutions.

• Supporting Kong running on AWS services ECS and EKS.

• Building linting utilities using python or node to validate configuration prior to a deployment.

• Creating Kong custom plugins and backends to support Oauth 2.0 authentication protocol.

• 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

• Bring a strong 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 situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.

• Use programming languages including but not limited to Java, Python, Lua.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

• Ability to coach others with minimal guidance effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization

• Experience with API management strategies and API gateway technologies (Kong, Apigee)

• Experience in API design & tools; swaggerhub, REST, GraphQL, GRPC

• 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, Lua, Java, NodeJs
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
  • 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

• Preferred Qualifications

  • 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:

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 $138,500.00 to $206,000.00. 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 at every level.

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.

• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).

• Company-funded pension plan.

• Wellness Programsincluding 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.

• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.

• 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.

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards 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.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

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.

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