Lead, Dev Ops Engineer

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Prudential's Tech and Data team is the spark that ignites the power of Prudential for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team comprises diverse, agile-thinking, and highly skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to 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 the Global Technology organization at Prudential, you'll unlock a challenging 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:

The AI/ML Engineering team at Prudential Financial is looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps/MLOps Engineer to join a diverse team dedicated to providing best-in-class data services to our customers, stakeholders, and partners.

As a part of our CDO organization, you will work with our Data Science and BUs to define solutions for institutionalizing data-driven decision-making in a cost-effective and scalable manner. In this role, you will drive the design and implementation of a robust, scalable pipeline for machine learning model training, deployment, and inference. The ideal candidate is a technical leader with a proven track record in DevOps, possessing deep expertise in both software engineering and machine learning principles.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day:

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of cutting-edge DevOps infrastructure for machine learning model development and deployment.
• Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate and optimize the entire ML lifecycle, from model experimentation to production deployment.
• Mentor and guide a team of DevOps/MLOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists to streamline model training, evaluation, and deployment processes, ensuring seamless integration with production environments.
• Monitor and troubleshoot machine learning systems in production, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Drive the development and adoption of DevOps best practices, tools, and platforms to enhance model experimentation, deployment, and management.
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems to proactively detect and address potential issues.
• Stay at the forefront of industry trends and technologies in the DevOps and MLOps space, evaluating and incorporating new solutions to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Contribute to the development of technical roadmaps and strategies for scaling DevOps capabilities across the organization.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring:

• 5 to 7+ years of proven experience as a Senior DevOps Lead within a large-scale enterprise
• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields Master's degree preferred
• Exposure and thought leadership with DevOps & emerging industry trends
• A great understanding of DevOps with proven and practical experience
• Experience with modern source code management and software repository systems (Git, Bitbucket)
• Ability to lead independently with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Significant experience and/or deep expertise with several of the following:

• In-depth experience building solutions using public clouds such as GCP, AWS & Azure
• Infrastructure & Cloud Security best practices including DevSecOps
• Test/Quality capabilities & methodologies (functional & nonfunctional) and associated tooling including quality automation
• Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development
• Frameworks: Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
• Programming Languages: Python, Shell/Power scripting, Groovy, Modern languages

• 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.

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.

Note: 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 $135,100.00 to $201, Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. 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. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.

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

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

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