Specialist, Cyber Detection Engineer

Prudential Ins Co of America; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 96,200 - 158,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Company-funded pension plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Wellness Programs

Job summary

Prudential Ins Co of America is seeking a Cyber Detection Engineer responsible for designing enterprise threat detection capabilities. This role involves operationalizing and improving security alerts across different environments.

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in detection engineering and a strong proficiency in SIEM technologies. Along with a competitive salary range, the company offers extensive benefits including health insurance and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting.
• Experience with Endpoint, Identity, Network, Cloud & SaaS technologies.
• Strong proficiency in SIEM/XDR systems and query authoring.

Responsibilities

• Operationalize security alerting and develop new detection capabilities.
• Author and maintain detections using SIEM/XDR platforms.
• Transform threat intelligence into actionable detection improvements.

Skills

Detection engineering

Incident response

Threat hunting

SIEM/XDR technologies

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

Education

3+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft KQL

SQL

Job description

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 Operations 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

The Specialist, Cyber Detection Engineer will serve as a hands‑on technical contributor responsible for designing and maintaining enterprise threat detection capabilities across on‑prem and cloud environments.

This role is focused on the continual improvement of detection capabilities, making sure they are aligned with enterprise risk and the evolving threat landscape. You will partner closely with other teams to design and build new detection capabilities that produce actionable and operationally effective alerting.

Here Is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Operationalize security alerting and develop new custom detection capabilities across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and application domains.
• Author and maintain detections using SIEM/XDR platforms, ensuring performance, scalability, and precision.
• Transform threat intelligence, incident learnings, purple‑team results, and hunt findings into new detection content, enhancements, or coverage improvements.
• Validate detections using realistic attack scenarios, emulation results, historical data, and safe adversary simulations.
• Identify telemetry gaps and log data quality issues that limit visibility or detection effectiveness, and work with platform and infrastructure teams to remediate.
• Rapidly develop temporary analytics or scoping queries to support Incident Response efforts during active investigations.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, metrics and reporting, and lifecycle management processes.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• 3+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, or security operations in large enterprise environments.
• Practical experience working with common Endpoint, Identity, Network, Cloud & SaaS technologies, and associated logging.
• Proven experience developing detection content across multiple telemetry sources.
• Strong proficiency with at least one major SIEM/XDR ecosystem and advanced query authoring (Splunk SPL, Microsoft KQL, SQL strongly preferred).
• Solid understanding of adversary tradecraft with practical experience applying MITRE ATT&CK to detection design, validation, and coverage assessment.
• Ability to reason about attacker behaviors, detection logic trade‑offs, and operational impacts rather than relying solely on static indicators.
• Experience using common scripting languages (e.g. Python, PowerShell) and solving problems, automation tasks and interacting with REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Strong written and verbal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• GIAC GDAT, GCDA, GCTD, GCTI, GMON, GCIH, GCFA, GCPY
• Splunk Power User
• Microsoft SC‑200, AZ‑500
• CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)

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:

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 $96,200.00 to $158,800.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

• 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 .
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company‑funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs 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.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• 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.

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. To find out more about our Total Rewards 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.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.

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