Director, System Development Position Available In Essex, New Jersey

Director, System Development (PGIM, Inc., Newark, NJ): Responsible for developing the monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations, and alerts. Manage critical operation tasks as well as on-demand requests. Perform operations tasks which include creating, developing and managing the deployment architecture for the application. Automate configuration management operating mechanisms. Drive ongoing improvements and efficiencies in operational practices, tools and processes in addition to also building and implementing processes and operational standards for PGIM along with onboarding AEM. Responsible for the administering, provisioning, configuring, and monitoring of webservers and application servers. Responsible for Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and load-balancing systems on AWS. Employ DevOps and Agile Principles and continue to utilize Jira, Jenkins, and Ansible/Puppet to enable CI / CD of various cloud applications. Employ DevOps principles, such as “Infrastructure as Code”, in order to automate the infrastructure provisioning using Configuration Management tools and Provisioning templates. Partner with Development teams for a timely and smooth acceptance of deliverables into production environment. Work to automate the deployment and operation of cloud enabled applications and services in AWS and private cloud infrastructure. Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days a week.

Full time employment, Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week, $199,900.00 per year. Benefits include medical, dental, PTO, and more.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, or a related field, and 10 years of related work experience, of which 5 years are progressive post baccalaureate related work experience. Must have 7 years of experience in each of the following:

• Drupal implementations on AWS;
• Drupal administration and PHP administration;
• Automation and configuration management using Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation;
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD process for SaaS applications by accessing tools: Maven or Jenkins; and
• Supporting ITIL processes: production support, off hours work, on call support and supporting frequent releases to any environment. Must have 5 years of experience utilizing scripting language: Shell or Python. Must have 4 years of experience working on data sources including MySQL, Oracle, Hadoop, or Cassandra. Must have 3 years of experience in each of the following:
• Setting up monitoring using Splunk or Dyntratrace; and
• Working with the SAFe Agile framework. Must have 2 years of experience in each of the following:
• Adobe and AEM implementation;
• Linux and Unix Administration; and
• Building Traffic policies to support HADR.

Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days a week.

To Apply:

Apply online at “https://bit.ly/45lqbtw”. Should you have any difficulty in applying for this position through our website, please contact Ramona.wallace@prudential.com for assistance in the application process.

What we offer you:

• 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. 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.