Lead, Database Infrastructure Security Engineer

Relha LLC; Newark, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-competitive base salary

Bonus potential

401(k) with match

Pension plan

Wellness programs

Education benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Prudential seeks a Lead, Database Infrastructure Security Engineer to drive secure database platforms across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will design security features, automate infrastructure tasks, and partner with product teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions that protect data and support business goals.

You will mentor colleagues, apply cutting‑edge security practices, and contribute to the evolution of security tooling, monitoring, and threat analytics across the data

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in CS/Engineering or related field with security focus.
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, and cloud/on‑prem environments.
• Applied security experience and vulnerability management tools.
• Familiar with DevSecOps, IaC, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop security features for database infra and products.
• Automate infrastructure creation, management, and secure destruction tasks.
• Provide services to software teams for database monitoring integration.
• Ensure product security throughout lifecycle, with feature updates.
• Mentor teammates and drive learning and innovation within the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

SQL

Shell scripting

Agile methodologies

Communication

Mentoring

Cloud platforms

TDD

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

IBM Guardium

Imperva DAM

Vulnerability Assessment (VA)

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

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.

Your Team & Role

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.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

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, CloudFormation 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

Support for Privileged access and entitlement reporting

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

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

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

Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills

Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:

Applied Security Experience

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) (certification is a plus)

Knowledge of various DBMS (MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Couchbase, MongoDB, Hadoop) and Cloud DB (Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Document DB, Redshift, RDS, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, snowflake Capella etc.)

Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments

Understanding of hardware, virtual machines, networking, and protocols

Basic risk management, auditing, and compliance knowledge

Frameworks: Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform

Linux / UNIX Operating Systems: File Permissions, Network Configuration, Services, Process Manipulation; supporting vendor security solutions

Database Fundamentals: Schemas, Tables, Permissions, SQL, Security

Networking, TCP/IP and other common Communication Protocols: OSI Model, 3 Way Handshake, Stateful vs Stateless, Proxy Firewall

Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development

Test/Quality capabilities & methodologies (functional & nonfunctional) and associated tooling including quality automation

Infrastructure & Cloud Security best practices including DevSecOps

Dev Ops Tools & Practices: awareness, understanding of DevOps automation tools, practices & capabilities (continuous integration & continuous delivery)

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Development and Design Fundamentals including SDLC and coding standards

Cloud Computing: Understanding and knowledge (of 1 or more): AWS, Azure or GCP

Disaster Recovery and High Availability

Preferred Qualifications

IBM Guardium / Imperva DAM and Vulnerability Assessment (VA)

What we offer you:

Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $133,600.00 to $220,400.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.

401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).

Company-funded pension plan.

Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.

Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.

Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part‑time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.