Pru
Lead, Cyber Defense & Response
Newark, NJ, USA · Part-time
Sponsorship not specified$124k-$204kDetected 30 days ago
AWSAzureCybersecuritySIEMKQLSOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseRecruitingLeadershipMentoringCompTIA
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About the role
- The salary range for this role is from $123,700.00 to $204,100.00.
- To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers.
- Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Responsibilities
- Lead proactive threat hunts across enterprise environments (on-prem and cloud), including Active Directory/Entra, M365, Azure, AWS, endpoints, identity, network, and application telemetry.
- Execute advanced investigations and log analytics using SIEM/XDR platforms; leverage Splunk SPL and Microsoft KQL to identify suspicious patterns, perform pivoting, and validate attack paths.
- Partner with Detection Engineering to develop, test, and tune detection logic, including supporting documentation, test cases, and validation against realistic adversary behaviors.
- Communicate clearly to stakeholders by producing concise executive summaries and detailed technical write-ups, brief leadership and technical partners on risk, scope, and recommended actions.
- Support incident response as needed by performing adjacency and scoping hunts during active incidents to prevent under-scoping and to identify persistence, lateral movement, and follow-on activity.
Requirements
- Drive visibility and resiliency improvements by identifying logging and data quality deficiencies, prioritizing remediation with stakeholders, and validating that required telemetry is consistently available.
- 5+ years of experience in cyber threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, or security operations in large enterprise environments.
- Strong proficiency with at least one major SIEM/XDR ecosystem and advanced query authoring; hands-on experience with Splunk SPL and/or Microsoft KQL strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of adversarial frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK and Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain, and ability to apply them to analytic development and hunting.
Compensation
- Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations.
Benefits
- Partner with Cyber Threat Intelligence to convert intelligence into environment-specific hunting plans, tracking, and measurable coverage (e.g., techniques, telemetry sources, and control validations).
- Contribute to program maturity by improving playbooks, workflows, metrics, and reporting for threat hunting operations (e.g., coverage progress, outcomes, and time-to-insight).
- 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.
- 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.
Company info
- The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA!
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