Specialist, Network Security Analyst

Prudential Financial, Inc.; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 89,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

PTO & leaves

401(k) match

Pension plan

Wellness programs

Education benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Prudential Financial, Inc. in Newark, NJ, is seeking a Specialist, Network Security Analyst within the ISO Infrastructure Security team to translate data from SIEM, firewall, proxy, NAC, and other sources into validated findings and prioritized actions.

You will partner with security, network, and infrastructure teams to build dashboards, quantify risk, and present concise recommendations to leadership. The role emphasizes technical depth, strategic thinking, and collaboration in a complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Experience in cybersecurity, network engineering, and security analytics.
• Ability to work with incomplete data and produce defensible conclusions.
• Experience developing queries and dashboards from security data.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze data from SIEM, firewall, proxy, NAC, and identity sources.
• Identify asset gaps, insecure access paths, and control weaknesses.
• Build analytics, dashboards, and reports measuring network security posture.
• Perform complex analysis with minimal assistance and document methods.
• Validate findings with cross-functional teams and establish remediation plans.
• Translate findings into risk statements and executive-ready summaries.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data interpretation

Excellent written communication

Collaborative teamwork across distrib

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or equivalent

Tools

Splunk

SQL

Python

PowerShell

Zscaler

GIAC certification

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 operations 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. 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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