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# Lead, Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Prudential Financial, Inc.
- **Location:** Newark, NJ, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $175,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Linux, Programming Tools, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Cyberark, System Availability, Cloudformation, Information Technology, Hashicorp, Graphql, Terraform, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** June 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g6z41f

## About the Role

6 years of related work experience

### Minimum Education Required

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, and 6 years of related work experience.

Must have 6 years of experience in:

 * AWS Solution Architecture;

 * CloudFormation; and

 * Python.

Must have 3 years of experience in Linux and Docker Containers.

Must have 2 years of experience in:

 * Terraform;

 * Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego;

 * Cloud FinOps;

 * Cloud Security;

 * AWS IAM Policies; and

 * APIs: Rest and GraphQL.

Must have 1 year of experience in:

 * Hashicorp Vault;

 * Golang;

 * Azure Solution Architecture;

 * Wiz; and,

 * Cyberark.

## Description

Ensuring reliable operation of the company's cloud infrastructure. Managing changes, incidents, and expanded access requests across the company's AWS and Azure accounts. Maintaining smooth running of cloud-based services with an emphasis on observability, high availability, disaster recovery, chaos engineering, privileged access, and incident/change management. Expanding the technology capabilities of the cloud products by designing services in support of each of these focus areas using AWS and Azure native infrastructure and development tools.


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