Prudential

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

As a Cloud Engineer specializing in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you will be responsible for the end-to-end management of cloud infrastructure and services. Your primary objectives will include designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, provisioning infrastructure, and deploying applications. You will work closely with development teams to ensure the seamless integration and continuous delivery of cloud-native applications. Additionally, your role will involve optimizing cloud resources, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability of the cloud environment. Experience with Microsoft Azure is a plus and will be leveraged to enhance multi-cloud strategies.

Skills

• Technical Proficiency
• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and solutions.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or Google Cloud Build.
• Experience in provisioning cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
• Familiarity with networking, security, and identity management within GCP.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure is a plus.
• Development and Deployment
• Hands-on experience in deploying and managing applications in a cloud environment.
• Understanding of cloud-native application development and microservices architecture.
• Optimization and Monitoring
• Ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud performance and costs.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Stackdriver, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Collaboration and Communication
• Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Competencies & Personal Traits

• Independent and works well across different functions
• Excellent problem analysis skill. Innovative and creative in developing solutions
• Strong sense of drive and commitment to deliver on responsibilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Works well in a dynamic environment
• Ability and willingness to be hands-on
• Experience in 1 or more of the following technology

o AS400, iSeries tool, COBOL, SMART400, IBM MQ, Business Object

o Java EE, RDBMS & PL/SQL, NoSQL, Object-Oriented Design, RESTful API, JBoss / IBM WAS

o Mobile Development (Objective C, Swift, Android, Hybrid, HTML5)

o ETL (IBM Datastage), Netezza, Business Intelligence (SAP BusinessObjects), Attunity, Hadoop (Hortonworks)

o Functional Testing (HP QuickTest Professional), Load Testing (JMeter)

o Robotic Process Automation (BluePrism, UIPath)

Working Experience

• 6-8 years in designing and developing and support applications.
• Experience in Agile software development

Education

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent

Language

• Fluent written and spoken English

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.