Job Classification:
Technology - Information Security
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, youll unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.
Your Team & Role
As a Threat Hunting Specialist within the Cyber Defense and Response organization, you will partner with other security professionals to execute threat hunting operations to proactively identify threats within the enterprise network. You will leverage your knowledge, technical skill set and creativity, to analyze and correlate various disparate events across a diverse set of security related logs and telemetry. In addition to finding evil, you will work to identify and address visibility and logging deficiencies within the network.
You will work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. In addition to applied 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
Plan, document, and execute cyber threat hunting operations to proactively identify cyber related threats that have evaded enterprise defense systems.
Continuously research and hunt for tactics, techniques, and procedures leveraged by advanced threat groups, as well as evidence pertaining to the exploitation of emerging vulnerabilities.
Continuously research, explore, and document newly onboarded enterprise technologies and data sources to identify new artifacts and analytical methodologies that can be leveraged to detect cyber threats.
Leverage operational results to identify, communicate, and mitigate identified threats as well as implement knowledge sharing across various teams.
Collaborate with the Cyber Threat Detection Engineering team and assist with the development and deployment of threat detection logic.
Collaborate with the Cyber Threat Intelligence team to operationalize threat intelligence for threat hunting operations.
Identify and implement necessary tooling and infrastructure to support and evolve the program. Develop scripts, tools, and methodologies to enhance our threat hunting capabilities.
Identify process and resiliency improvement areas; propose changes.
Bring an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
Proven experience executing cyber threat hunting, incident response, or other relevant security operations.
Experience analyzing system, network, and application logs/telemetry for attack techniques at all stages of the cyber kill chain and ATT&CK framework.
Direct experience working with large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: SIEM, EDR, Python, PowerShell, etc.
Demonstrable knowledge of large enterprise environments, network protocols, network devices, operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, etc.), and cloud environments.
Experience using Splunks Search Processing Language (SPL) and Microsofts Kusto Query Language (KQL).
Familiarity with common enterprise scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.).
Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
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.
Applied experience with several of the following:
Cyber Threat Hunting
Cyber Detection Engineering
Digital Forensics & Incident Response
Insider Risk Investigations
DFIR Automation & Engineering
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Preferred qualifications:
Industry relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, OSWE, GPEN, GCIH, GCFA, GREM, GWAPT, or GXPN.
Youll 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, well help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. Youll 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.
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