Lead Cloud Engineer – Observability

As a Lead, Cloud Engineer on the Cloud Observability Team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to improve the centralized logging platform.  You will design, plan, administer, develop, or maintain applications in cloud-based environments 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 to all that you do.
* Deliver computing services in cloud-based environments like AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. Develop and support solutions to automate the creation, management, or destruction of 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, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages and Ansible, Cloud Formation and Terraform frameworks
* Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
* Ability to coach other with minimal guidance and 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 deep expertise in several of the following:  +
** Cloud Approved Services:
** compute, containers, serverless, storage, network, data, integration, event management, logging, alerting, security, AI/ML, database, analytics, and content delivery  +
** Programming

Languages:

** Python, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages  +
** Frameworks:
** Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform  +
** 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
** Dev Sec Ops **  +
** Dev Ops Tools & Practices:
** awareness,…