Prudential is hiring a Specialist, Network Security Analyst in Newark, NJ (onsite). In the Network Security Strategy & Analysis team within ISO Infrastructure Security, you will use network, security, asset, configuration, and vulnerability data to identify risk, quantify technical debt, evaluate control effectiveness, and support strategic decisions that improve network security outcomes.
What you’ll do
- Collect, normalize, correlate, and analyze data from SIEM, firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, network, vulnerability, asset, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint, and identity sources.
- Identify unmanaged assets, insecure access paths, legacy technologies, control gaps, configuration weaknesses, segmentation issues, and other network security technical debt.
- Build repeatable analytics, queries, dashboards, and reports that measure network security posture, exposure, control coverage, risk-reduction progress, and data quality.
- Conduct complex analysis independently, documenting methods, assumptions, limitations, validation steps, and recommended actions.
- Collaborate with network, infrastructure, application, cloud, identity, and security teams to validate findings, resolve data discrepancies, and establish accountable remediation plans.
- Support current-state assessments and strategy work for NAC, segmentation, Zero Trust, ZTNA, firewall modernization, proxy transformation, and related capabilities.
- Translate findings into concise risk statements, decision-ready summaries, visualizations, and presentations for technical and leadership audiences.
- Maintain a network security risk and technical-debt inventory, including evidence, ownership, prioritization, dependencies, status, and risk-acceptance information.
- Automate recurring data preparation, quality checks, correlation, and reporting where practical, while keeping clear process and query documentation.
- Continuously improve analytical methods, data sources, metrics, and validation processes based on stakeholder feedback and evolving risk priorities.
Applied experience you’ll bring
- Experience with Splunk (or comparable SIEM/analytics platforms), including search development, field normalization, lookups, dashboards, and scheduled reporting.
- SQL, Python, PowerShell (or comparable) for data manipulation, correlation, automation, and quality validation.
- Telemetry and concepts across firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, DNS, flow, routing, switching, authentication, and remote-access, including Zscaler where applicable.
- Experience working with asset inventories and tooling such as CMDB, IPAM, endpoint-management, identity, vulnerability-management, and ServiceNow data.
- Network fundamentals including IP addressing, subnets, VLANs, routing, ACLs, firewall policy, NAT, segmentation, and application connectivity.
- Information security risk assessment and technical-debt tracking, including control testing, issue management, and exception processes.
- Working knowledge of NIST and ISO 27000, CIS Controls, and Zero Trust concepts and control standards/specifications.
- Data visualization and measurement, including KPI/KRI design, trend analysis, executive reporting, and evaluation of control effectiveness and remediation outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or equivalent experience in related fields.
- Applied experience in cybersecurity, network engineering, security analytics, risk analysis, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with incomplete or inconsistent enterprise data and produce defensible conclusions.
- Experience developing queries, dashboards, metrics, or reports using security and technology data.
- Ability to independently manage assigned analysis and project work while escalating material risks, blockers, and data-quality concerns appropriately.
- Knowledge of business concepts and information security tools/processes needed to make sound decisions within the company context.
- Experience working with agile ways of working and collaborating across geographically and functionally diverse teams.
- Excellent written communication, presentation, documentation, and collaboration skills.
Tools and technologies you’ll work with
SIEM, firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint, identity, Splunk, SQL, Python, PowerShell, Zscaler, DNS, flow, routing, switching, authentication, ServiceNow, NIST, ISO 27000, CIS Controls, Zero Trust
Benefits at Prudential
- Market-competitive base salary with yearly bonus potential at every level.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, 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/year for reimbursement of items supporting personal wellbeing needs.
- Work/Life Resources covering 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 an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with shares purchasable at 85% of the lower of the two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).
Compensation and incentives
The salary range for this role is $89,000.00 to $147,000.00. Specific pricing may vary based on geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program depends on applicable program rules, including individual and organizational performance.
Why you’ll like the team
- Join a team and culture where your voice matters and your work improves security outcomes.
- Meaningful work and continuous learning to help expand both technical and leadership capabilities.
