Senior Application Security Lead (DevSecOps & Cloud)

pru; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential in Newark, NJ seeks a Lead, Application Security on the Attack Surface Management team. You will provide technical and strategic leadership to advance Prudential's enterprise application security program, partnering with senior security leaders, the I.S.O., CTO, and global engineering teams to secure applications at scale.

You will drive secure-by-design outcomes, embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines, and scale security through automation and policy-as-code.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead and escalation point for application security and attack surface management initiatives.
• Provide expert-level leadership for security tools, platforms, and assessment methodologies.
• Design and evolve application security assessment, response, and risk governance processes.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Cloud, and business teams to ensure security is embedded in delivery.
• Lead maturation of vulnerability and configuration monitoring across third-party and open-source software.
• Drive integration of security controls into CI/CD pipelines and automated enforcement.
• Develop standards, policies, and alerting aligned to SOX, NIST, PCI DSS, etc.

Job description

Prudential in Newark, NJ seeks a Lead, Application Security on the Attack Surface Management team. You will provide technical and strategic leadership to advance Prudential's enterprise application security program, partnering with senior security leaders, the I.S.O., CTO, and global engineering teams to secure applications at scale.

You will drive secure-by-design outcomes, embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines, and scale security through automation and policy-as-code.