Cloud and Infrastructure - Lead

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions.

We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed. We are seeking an experienced Cloud & Infra Lead, who has extensive experience in the Insurance/Finance Industry, to join our team. This role is critical in ensuring the quality and reliability of our multiple initiatives across Group and Local Business Units (LBUs).

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding Azure and GCP Cloud Infrastructure Concepts, Experience working on multiple Implementations and Cloud Migration projects. Role and Responsibilities

• Preparing the architecture diagrams with components, connectivity and network rules as per application requirement.
• Updating and maintaining the Low. Level. Design documents.
• Ensuring the infrastructure is stable, scalable, secure and as per Pru GISP standards.
• Collaborating with the Development team and functional team ore relevant stakeholders for planning, validation and review the infrastructure
• Providing technical guidance to the Infra Engineers and Analyst.
• Updating and maintaining the Infra inventory/assets
• Review, evaluate and ways to optimise the infrastructure cost
• Investigate the viability of new technologies to optimise our Infrastructure.
• Implement the Infrastructure with High Availability and Disaster Recovery setup.
• Ability to work in high paced critical implementations in parallel.
• Coach, Lead and manage the team deliverables, including delivery optimisation and team productivity Qualifications
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science
• 14 to 16 years experience
• Expertise in Azure Cloud components such as Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Monitor, Log Analytics, AKV, SQL Server, AAD, Windows and Linux VMs
• Expertise in Google Cloud concepts and components, Buckets, Big. Query, Logging, Monitoring, Cloud Functions.
• Expertise in Networking and Connectivity Concepts.
• Knowledge of PoweBI Desktop/Workspace and Power Automate.
• Knowledge/hands on experience with Terraform, Python and Power. Shell.
• Excellent Verbal and Written Communication skills
• Familiarity with Usage of JIRA and Sprint Methodology.
• Excellent Vendor Management skills and experience in managing vendor teams Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.