Strategic Network Security Analyst

Prudential Ins Co of America; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 89,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness Programs

Education Benefit

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

Prudential Financial, Inc. is seeking a Specialist, Network Security Analyst within the ISO Infrastructure Security team to analyze security data, identify risk, and support strategic network security decisions.

The role collaborates with Network Engineering, Security Operations, Cloud, and Architecture to drive remediation actions and improve risk posture. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, experience with security analytics, and the ability to present concise

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or equivalent experience.
• Applied experience in cybersecurity, network engineering, security analytics, risk analysis, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including ability to work with incomplete 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 risks and data quality concerns.
• Knowledge of business concepts and information security tools and processes.

Responsibilities

• 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, and configuration weaknesses.
• Build repeatable analytics, queries, dashboards, and reports measuring network security posture and risk reduction progress.
• Perform complex analysis independently with documentation of methods and validation steps.
• Partner with multiple teams to validate findings and establish remediation plans.
• Translate findings into risk statements, executive summaries, and visualizations.

Skills

Network security analytics

Data analysis

SQL / Python

Dashboarding

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Splunk

SQL

Python

PowerShell

Zscaler

Job description

Prudential Financial, Inc. is seeking a Specialist, Network Security Analyst within the ISO Infrastructure Security team to analyze security data, identify risk, and support strategic network security decisions.

The role collaborates with Network Engineering, Security Operations, Cloud, and Architecture to drive remediation actions and improve risk posture. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, experience with security analytics, and the ability to present concise