PSA | Senior Manager, Senior Cloud Developer

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.

• Balance strategic oversight with deep engineering by engaging in hands-on coding, mentoring, code reviews, architectural design, and planning to ensure both innovation and delivery excellence.

• Provide technical leadership for cloud platform initiatives, defining requirements, architecture, and success metrics for production rollouts.

• Manage internal customer relationships, including interactions with technical, project, and engineering resources within LBUs.

• Drive prototyping and experimentation, benchmarking workflow performance and security to validate new solution and framework changes.

• Well versed with Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) principles and technologies.

• Well versed with container architecture, container standards, container design, container building and able to assess and establish the need for containers.

• Develop and maintain reusable IaC modules and workflows (Terraform, Python/Bash, CI/CD), ensuring adherence to coding standards and existing patterns.

• Mentor and enable engineering peers through design reviews, workshops, documentation, and hands-on guidance to elevate team capabilities.

• Work with various stakeholders to gather requirements, providing technical insights and leadership in the development of cloud-based applications.

• Translate stakeholder requirements into robust, maintainable automation patterns.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Security, and Operations teams to integrate solution, operational process, and third-party services into the platform.

• Lead post-incident reviews and implement continuous improvements to enhance system resilience and reliability.

Who we are looking for:

• Deep Azure & GCP knowledge: landing zones, VPC/VNet, Firewalls, IAM, Managed k8s, VM, etc.

• Expertise in cloud architecture and services across platforms, multi-tenancy and shared patterns.

• Strong foundation in Cloud Automation tools and practices, with a focus on infrastructure as code (IaC), Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Back) for automation and configuration management.

• Ability to lead and manage small teams, setting clear goals and fostering a positive team environment.

• Strong architectural thinking: modular, secure, and scalable designs.

• Engineering Best Practices

• Strong project management skills with the ability to coordinate releases and manage service delivery.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Personal Traits

• Results-oriented: focused on delivery velocity and measurable impact.

• Excellent communicator: articulates complex ideas clearly to all audiences.

• Collaborative influencer: builds trust, drives alignment without formal authority.

• Self-starter: proactively identifies opportunities and solutions.

• Detail-oriented and methodical in design and documentation.

• Resilient problem-solver: anticipates risks, defines mitigation plans, learns from failures and adapts quickly.

• Works well in a dynamic environment.

Working Experience

• Proven track record delivering large-scale Azure/GCP projects, including prototypes, production launches and long-term maintenance.

• At least 6 years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role within cloud development teams.

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining self-service infrastructure platforms.

• Demonstrated success mentoring engineers and driving cross-team initiatives.

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.