Cloud & Container Security Architect

Prudential Annuities Distributors (PAD); Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 96,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan with company match

Pension plan

Wellness program reimbursement

Education benefit

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Discretionary annual incentive

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Prudential Annuities Distributors (PAD) in Newark, NJ, seeks a Specialist for Cloud/Containers on the Attack Surface Management Team to partner with the Information Security Office and CTO. You will drive cloud security maturity, support implementation, and own deliverables while triaging misconfigurations and improving controls across the enterprise.

You will lead SMB guidance, reporting, and collaboration with engineering to reduce risk, validate mitigations, and evolve security metrics and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in cloud and container security.
• Expertise in container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS).
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security posture management tools.
• Experience improving cloud compliance posture management processes and assessments of risk for container and cloud environments.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering teams to provide SME knowledge of vulnerabilities and mitigations.
• Engineering mindset – systems thinking, creative problem solving, deductive reasoning.
• Effective communication and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, implementation, and enhancement of Prudential’s cloud and container monitoring and assessment capabilities
• Triage, prioritize, drive remediation, and validate mitigating controls of cloud and container-related misconfiguration findings and drive continuous monitoring against industry and enterprise security posture
• Proactively identify and implement security improvements in the environment, especially those related to prevention and validation.
• Examine current state, industry/technology trends, and business requirements to drive innovation.
• Provide SME guidance and review to stakeholders on remediation, exception requests, prioritization, and mitigations
• Provide updates regarding compliance and risk across multiple platforms and groups
• Share and evolve reporting metrics that relay proper risk posture to leadership
• Ideate and implement improvements to processes, metrics, and documentation to mature security posture and risk management capabilities.
• Partner with leadership to set direction for the future of the Attack Surface Management program, while ensuring an accurate understanding and in-depth knowledge of daily operations to provide recommendations to team objectives.
• Develop security policies and compliance initiatives derived from industry standards

Skills

Cloud security

Container security

SecDevOps

Python scripting

PowerShell

Bash

Automation

CI/CD

Threat modeling

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS/ECS

Job description

Prudential Annuities Distributors (PAD) in Newark, NJ, seeks a Specialist for Cloud/Containers on the Attack Surface Management Team to partner with the Information Security Office and CTO. You will drive cloud security maturity, support implementation, and own deliverables while triaging misconfigurations and improving controls across the enterprise.

You will lead SMB guidance, reporting, and collaboration with engineering to reduce risk, validate mitigations, and evolve security metrics and