Lead, Database Infrastructure Security Engineer

Lead, Database Infrastructure Security Engineer

Are you interested in building capabilities that 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 our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

As a Lead, Infrastructure Security Engineer in Security Services Data protection, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to improve database security posture. You will design and develop security features for our products, systems, applications and/or solutions that solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Create, code and support solutions to automate the creation, management, or destruction of infrastructure and related security components

Provide easily consumable services to software development teams to assist in the consumption of database infrastructure monitoring solutions and partner to implement them

Ensures product security is maintained throughout the product lifecycle, integrating new security features and updates into existing products.

Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact and support the goals

Automate unit and integration test cases, solve problems, and add new value with automation

Develop corporate platform standards based on cost, capability, and capacity requirements to drive business value; document solutions to support the adoption of developed solutions

Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day‑to‑day

Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.

Apply infrastructure fundamentals to AWS/Azure/Windows/Linux/Unix databases, network and TCP/IP, and common communication protocols

Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Shell/Power scripting, SQL, Modern languages and Ansible, Cloud Formation and Terraform frameworks

Support for Database activity monitoring, SOX compliance, threat analytics, SNOW and Splunk integration

Managing Database configuration compliance, vulnerability management, CIS benchmarking, SNOW integration

Infrastructure health checks, patching, maintenance, disaster recovery, and business continuity

Ability to mentor others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization

Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business

Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges

Experience working with distributed systems across different operating systems and databases, both cloud and on-premises

Applied experience with IBM Guardium / Imperva DAM and Vulnerability Assessment (VA)…