Lead, Infrastructure Developer - API Platform

$138,500 - $206,000/Yr

Prudential - Newark, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Newark, NJ

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About the position

As a Lead, Infrastructure Developer on the API Platform team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to improve the Kong API platform. You will develop software and automated solutions to manage the lifecycle of infrastructure services 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must.

Benefits

• 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 Programs 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.
• 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.