Lead Dev Ops Engineer

Job title: Lead Dev Ops Engineer

About the Role Lead DevOps Engineer for PGIM Ireland within Prudential Financial, Inc. You will help build scalable applications supporting Portfolio Management, Compliance, Finance, Data Governance, Operational Risk and Human Resources. The role requires deep technical expertise in Java or Python with strong SQL skills and the ability to work with large internal and external data sets across on-prem, AWS and Azure.

What You'll Do

• Standardize CI/CD on GitHub Actions by building reusable workflows/composite actions, defining runner strategy, enforcing environment protections/approvals and required quality gates; automate build, test, security checks, and progressive delivery (blue/green, canary) to enable developer self-service.
• Develop automated infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, source code management and new ways to operate and collaborate; implement Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Use role-relevant languages and frameworks such as Python, Shell/PowerShell plus Groovy/JavaScript as needed for pipeline automation.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment patterns and environment promotion workflows; establish guardrails for configuration, secrets, and change management across environments.
• Partner with engineering and leadership on FinOps practices: cost allocation/tagging standards, budget alerts, showback/chargeback reporting, rightsizing and scheduling, and optimization of compute/storage/network spend.
• Drive DevSecOps and Security Operations alignment by partnering with security teams on detection and response (triage, containment, postmortems), improving platform hardening and access controls, and ensuring audit-ready logging and monitoring.
• Define and operationalize SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, on-call readiness, runbooks, automated remediation, and service health dashboards leveraging modern observability tooling.
• In addition to technical depth, bring problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, agile mindset, enthusiasm for new tools, and an inclusive attitude.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of proven experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience deploying, managing and monitoring services in AWS/Azure.
• Hands-on experience with source control (Git, GitHub) and feature branching strategies.
• Designing and operating CI/CD platforms with GitHub Actions; familiarity migrating from legacy tooling (e.g., Jenkins).
• Understanding networking, DNS, routing and messaging between services.
• Experience with microservices and designing observability (metrics, logs, traces) for production services.
• Working knowledge of cloud security and SecOps (IAM, key management, logging/monitoring, vulnerability remediation, incident response) and ability to embed security controls into workflows.
• Experience applying FinOps concepts in AWS/Azure (cost visibility, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, rightsizing, reserved capacity/savings plans) and communicating cost drivers to engineering.
• Ability to speak to SDLC best practices and industry trends.
• Familiarity with Software Engineering domains: Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Shell; Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code; Jira; pip/npm; Gradle/Maven.
• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes); IaC/tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Artifact repositories (Artifactory, Nexus, GitHub Packages).
• CI/CD platforms: Jenkins & GitHub Actions; GitHub Actions patterns (workflow-as-code, reusable workflows/actions, runners, environment protections, secrets + OIDC, artifacts/caching).
• Cloud container platforms: AWS EKS/ECS and ECR; Azure AKS and ACR (image scanning/signing where available).
• Continuous delivery & GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux) and Helm/Kustomize-based configuration management.
• Cloud-native identity, secrets, and configuration (AWS IAM/KMS/SSM; Azure Entra ID, Key Vault, App Configuration).
• Cloud monitoring/logging (AWS CloudWatch/CloudTrail; Azure Monitor/Log Analytics/Application Insights; integrations with Splunk/Dynatrace/Datadog).
• Policy-as-code and compliance automation (OPA/Gatekeeper, Terraform policy frameworks) and secrets management practices.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Strong verbal communication and documentation skills to address both developers and business leaders.

Nice to Have

• AWS and Azure Cloud Certifications.
• Experience in application development (Python, Groovy, JavaScript).
• Experience in SRE principles, developing metrics to measure Web apps, data analytics and ETL processes; establish SLO/SLA, performance metrics.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the posting.