Specialist, Network Security Analyst

Prudential Annuities Distributors (PAD); Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 89,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Wellness programs

Job summary

Prudential Financial, Inc. in Newark, NJ is seeking a Specialist, Network Security Analyst within the ISO Infrastructure Security team to transform security data into validated findings and prioritized actions.

You will analyze SIEM, firewall, and vulnerability data, develop dashboards, and collaborate across security and technology teams to reduce risk. A strong foundation in cybersecurity, data analytics, and experience with Splunk, SQL, and Python is preferred, with a focus on measurable risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• Experience in cybersecurity, network engineering, analytics, or related discipline.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work with incomplete enterprise data.
• Experience developing queries, dashboards, metrics, or reports.
• Ability to manage analysis and projects independently.

Responsibilities

• Collect, normalize, and analyze data from SIEM, firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, network, vulnerability, asset, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint, and identity sources.
• Identify unmanaged assets and control gaps in the network.
• Build analytics, dashboards, and reports to measure security posture.
• Translate findings into risk statements and executive visuals.
• Maintain a risk and technical-debt inventory with ownership and status.
• Automate recurring data preparation and reporting.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or equivalent experience

Tools

Splunk

Zscaler

GIAC

SQL

Python

PowerShell

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 team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA. When you join our organization, you will unlock an exciting and impactful career while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role

As a Specialist, Network Security Analyst within the Network Security Strategy & Analysis team within the ISO Infrastructure Security team, you will use network, security, asset, configuration, and vulnerability data to identify risk, quantify technical debt, evaluate control effectiveness, and support strategic network security decisions. You will partner with Network Engineering, Network Security Operations, Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, Architecture, and other security teams to convert complex data into validated findings, prioritized recommendations, dashboards, and measurable risk-reduction actions. You will explain complex concepts and influence others to adopt data-supported points of view while working on complex problems that require an in-depth evaluation of security controls and business context. This role does not own day-to-day administration or operation of network security platforms; instead, this team will use analysis to drive environmental hardening and risk reduction. Success requires technical depth, strategic thinking, strong analytical judgment, and the ability to lead work through influence across multiple teams.

Here Is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Collect, normalize, correlate, and analyze data from SIEM, firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, network, vulnerability, asset, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint, and identity sources.
• Identify unmanaged assets, insecure access paths, legacy technologies, control gaps, configuration weaknesses, segmentation issues, and other areas of network security technical debt.
• Build repeatable analytics, queries, dashboards, and reports that measure network security posture, exposure, control coverage, risk-reduction progress, and data quality.
• Perform complex analysis independently with minimal assistance, documenting methods, assumptions, limitations, validation steps, and recommended actions.
• Partner with network, infrastructure, application, cloud, identity, and security teams to validate findings, resolve data discrepancies, and establish accountable remediation plans.
• Support current-state assessments and strategy work for NAC, segmentation, Zero Trust, ZTNA, firewall modernization, proxy transformation, and related capabilities.
• Translate analytical findings into concise risk statements, decision-ready summaries, visualizations, and presentations for technical and leadership audiences.
• Maintain a network security risk and technical-debt inventory, including evidence, ownership, prioritization, dependencies, status, and risk-acceptance information.
• Automate recurring data preparation, quality checks, correlation, and reporting where practical and maintain clear process and query documentation.
• Continuously improve analytical methods, data sources, metrics, and validation processes based on stakeholder feedback and evolving risk priorities.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or equivalent experience in related fields.
• Applied experience in cybersecurity, network engineering, security analytics, risk analysis, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with incomplete or inconsistent enterprise data and produce defensible conclusions.
• Experience developing queries, dashboards, metrics, or reports using security and technology data.
• Ability to independently manage assigned analysis and project work while escalating material risks, blockers, and data-quality concerns appropriately.
• Knowledge of business concepts and information security tools and processes needed to make sound decisions within the company context.
• Experience with agile ways of working and collaboration across geographically and functionally diverse teams.
• Excellent written communication, presentation, documentation, and collaboration skills.
• Applied Experience with Several of the Following Splunk or comparable SIEM and analytics platforms, including search development, field normalization, lookups, dashboards, and scheduled reporting.
• SQL, Python, PowerShell, or comparable methods for data manipulation, correlation, automation, and quality validation.
• Firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, DNS, flow, routing, switching, authentication, and remote-access telemetry, including Zscaler data where applicable.
• Asset inventories, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint-management, identity, vulnerability-management, and ServiceNow data.
• Network concepts such as IP addressing, subnets, VLANs, routing, ACLs, firewall policy, NAT, segmentation, and application connectivity.
• Information Security risk assessments, control testing, issue management, exception processes, and technical-debt tracking.
• NIST and ISO 27000 standards, CIS Controls, Zero Trust concepts, and information security control standards and engineering specifications.
• Data visualization, KPI/KRI design, trend analysis, executive reporting, and measurement of control effectiveness and remediation outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Security, networking, analytics, cloud, Splunk, Zscaler, or GIAC certification.
• Experience analyzing data in a large enterprise with multiple network and security platforms.
• Experience supporting network segmentation, NAC, Zero Trust, firewall-rule analysis, or technical-debt reduction initiatives.

You'll Love Working Here

Because You Can Join a team and culture where your voice matters and where your work improves security outcomes. As you put your skills to use, we will help you expand both your technical and leadership capabilities through meaningful work and continuous learning.

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 $89,000.00 to $147,000.00. 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).
• 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.

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.

If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email [e-mail]. If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email [e-mail] to request assistance.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a global financial services leader and premier active global investment manager with approximately $1.4 trillion in assets under management as of Dec. 31, 2023, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prudential's diverse and talented employees help make lives better and create financial opportunity for more people by expanding access to investing, insurance, and retirement security. Prudential's iconic Rock symbol has stood for strength, stability, expertise and innovation for 150 years. For more information please visit news.prudential.com.

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace Prudential Financial, Inc. serves its customers in more than 40 countries and territories, and we seek talented, creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds, worldviews, and life circumstances to work with us. We are focused on creating a fully inclusive culture, where all employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. We don't just accept difference- we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it. At Prudential, employees have a unique opportunity to build their career path by owning their development, their career, and their future. We encourage employees to hone their skills and explore continued opportunities within Prudential.

PGIM, the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), is a global investment manager with US $1.3 trillion in assets under management as of Dec. 31, 2023. With offices in 18 countries, PGIM's businesses offer a range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors around the world across a broad range of asset classes, including public fixed income, private fixed income, fundamental equity, quantitative equity, real estate, and alternatives. For more information about PGIM, visit pgim.com.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom, or with Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom. For more information please visit news.prudential.com. PGIM Inc. (PGIM) is the principal asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI), a company incorporated and with its principal place of business in the United States. PFI of the United States is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom or with Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom.

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace Prudential Financial, Inc. serves its customers in more than 40 countries and territories, and we seek talented, creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds, worldviews, and life circumstances to work with us. We are focused on creating a fully inclusive culture, where all employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. We don't just accept difference- we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it. At Prudential, employees have a unique opportunity to build their career path by owning their development, their career, and their future. We encourage employees to hone their skills and explore continued opportunities within Prudential.