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Your Team & Role

As the Director of the Cyber Defense and Response organizations Automation and Innovation team you will lead a highly skilled team of professionals responsible for developing orchestration and automation ensuring a coordinated view of our security technologies. You will work in close collaboration and provide solutions to colleagues responsible for security operations threat hunting incident response insider risk threat intelligence and detection engineering.

You will bring excellent problem solving communication and teamwork skills along with Agile ways of working strong business insight an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Lead a team of professionals focused on providing automation and innovation solutions to the Cyber Defense and Response team.

• Lead the production of monitoring digital forensics and incident response automation spanning multiple technologies across onprem SaaS and Cloud.

• Drive technology orchestration collaborating closely with partners across the information security and technology offices.

• Implement Agile practices when working with other technology teams to strengthen Prudentials security posture.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

• Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas experiences thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization

• Experience with agile development methodologies

• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the companys business

• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through selfinitiative and tackling challenges

• Excellent problem solving communication and collaboration skills

• Experience in cyber defense and response automation ideally in large corporate/government environments.

• Experience designing deploying and maintaining infrastructure in support of cyber defense and response.

• Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas.

Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:

• Implementation and customization of Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) platforms.

• Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.

• Experience with infrastructureascode (IaC) tools such as Terraform CloudFormation.

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS AKS GKE).

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and associated services.

• Proficient in scripting and automation using Python Bash or PowerShell.

• Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git).

• Knowledge of security best practices in DevOps pipelines (e.g. secret management code scanning least privilege).

• Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues across cloud and onprem environments.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and collaborative DevOps culture.

• Experience with common enterprise security platforms including SIEM and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) systems.

• Proficient in working crossfunctionally with developers QA and operations teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Masters degree or equivalent certifications in Digital Forensics Incident Response Information Security Computer Science Information Technology or a related discipline.

• GCFA GCFR GEIR GNFA GREM GMLE GCSA or similar industryaccepted certifications.

• Experience reversing and analyzing malicious software.

• Experience with Frontend frameworks for web development.

What we offer you:

• 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.

• Companyfunded pension plan.

• Wellness Programs including up to $1600 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 parttime employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.