Job Classification:

Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

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 VP, Product Owner, Cyber Security Operations you will serve as the executive leader of Prudential’s Global 24/7/365 Cyber Security Operation. You will lead a highly skilled and dedicated team of professionals responsible for event handling, threat analysis, and incident management working to protect the Prudential Financial enterprise. You will regularly advance the organization’s maturity, advised by your expert knowledge of a wide range of cybersecurity threats, analysis, and remediation practices. You will partner with stakeholders across the Information Security Office and the greater Global Technology team to drive improvements to the use of data, automation, and orchestration. Your observations will drive improvements to the secure architecture and cyber resiliency of the enterprise. Candidates for this role are expected to be experienced cyber security operations leaders.  
What you can expect on a Typical Day:

• Manage Prudential’s Global CSOC in the large-scale analysis of alerts, events, and incidents to identify, scope, contain, and remediate a full range of cybersecurity matters.
• Drive knowledge management, lessons-learned, preparation, and training for the CSOC.
• Function as Incident Commander and communicate across multiple teams during triage, response, and containment efforts as the need arises to maintain the integrity and security of enterprise-wide systems and networks.
• Drive continuous improvement to the organization’s security engineering; maintain strong understanding of technologies in use across the enterprise and drive consistent maturity in application of continuous monitoring capabilities.
• Demonstrate highest levels of professional expertise and analytical quality; drive complete quality control of end-to-end cyber security operation.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Prior Experience managing Cyber Operations, 24/7 experience, including in-depth knowledge of cyber incident ticketing, process development, tracking, and metrics generation.

• Deep understanding of IT Security practices/programs as well as networking, endpoint, cloud, server, *nix, and windows concepts/tools.
• Demonstrated experience with advanced threat/intrusion analysis, cyber threat intelligence lifecycle, digital forensic investigations, and incident response.
• Experience driving automation and orchestration efforts; demonstrated hands-on experience with Windows (PowerShell, etc.) and UNIX/Linux command line scripting (Bash, Python, etc.) and programming experience preferred. 

• Ability to navigate high pressure situations as an accountable decision maker.

• Demonstrated expertise in efficient use of key platforms used for ticketing, orchestration, and automation and the full array of security technologies used to alert, log, and correlate potential flags of security risk across an enterprise environment.
• Proven experience in cyber defense leadership roles, preferably in a 24/7 CSOC; deep experience in incident handling and response.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across a geographically dispersed array of technical and non-technical stakeholders of all levels of seniority.

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

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering, Information Security, Information Technology, or experience/degree in related fields; strong academic credentials and certifications preferred, (e.g., GIAC GSOM, GMON, GCFA, GCIA, GNFA, GCTI, GREM, GCIH, GCFA, GPEN, OSCP, AWS/Azure/GCP Security certs, etc.).
• Ability to coach others and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and prospectives to benefit the organization.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.
• Deep expertise with cloud security stacks preferred.
• Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes required for sound decision-making.
• Ability to learn new skills on an on-going basis through self-initiative.

Applied Experience with multiple of the Following: 

• Cyber Security Operations Analysis and Management 
• Digital Forensics and Cyber Incident Response
• Threat Hunting and Adversary Emulation
• DFIR Automation and Engineering
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Insider Risk and UEBA

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

What we offer you:

• 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
• Retirement plans:
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)
• Company-funded pension plan
• Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, 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.
• Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.

To find out more about our Total Reward 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.

Note: 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 $189,600.00 to $256,400.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. 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. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.