Cloud & Container Security Specialist

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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 at Prudential youll unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role

As a Specialist for Cloud/Containers on the Attack Surface Management Team you will partner with other security professionals across the Information Security Office the Chief Technology Office and other groups in Prudential to drive Prudentials Cloud security efforts across the global enterprise.

You will support implementation and operational best practices while contributing to or owning deliverables and project workstreams around cloud security maturity. You will also perform triage of issues related to technology configuration software weaknesses build/deployment and process challenges. You will work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables and may impact future concepts products or technologies to ensure security of our products and customers! In addition to applied experience 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

• Contribute to the design development implementation and enhancement of Prudentials cloud and container monitoring and assessment capabilities
• Triage prioritize drive remediation and validate mitigating controls of cloud and container-related misconfiguration findings and drive continuous monitoring against industry and enterprise security posture
• Proactively identify and implement security improvements in the environment especially those related to prevention and validation. Examine current state industry/technology trends and business requirements to drive innovation.
• Provide SME guidance and review to stakeholders on remediation exception requests prioritization and mitigations
• Provide updates regarding compliance and risk across multiple platforms and groups
• Share and evolve reporting metrics that relay proper risk posture to leadership
• Ideate and implement improvements to processes metrics and documentation to mature security posture and risk management capabilities.
• Partner with leadership to set direction for the future of the Attack Surface Management program while ensuring an accurate understanding and in-depth knowledge of daily operations to provide recommendations to team objectives.
• Develop security policies and compliance initiatives derived from industry standards

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Demonstrated expertise in cloud and container security
• Expertise in container technologies (Docker Kubernetes EKS/ECS)
• Skilled in compliance posture to risk and threat correlation
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security posture management tools as well as common vulnerability data sources and frameworks
• Experience improving cloud compliance posture management processes as well as assessments of risk management for container and cloud environments.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering teams to provide SME knowledge of vulnerabilities associated with cloud and container workloads that validate risk reduction effectiveness and reduction of false positives and consult on mitigations
• Engineering mindset systems thinking creative problem solving deductive reasoning
• Effective communication and documentation

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with CI/CD and SecDevOps
• Scripting background (Python PowerShell Bash etc.)
• Familiarity with cloud posture management tools CSPM and frameworks
• Familiarity with audit processes and evidence requirements.
• Understanding of threat actors with the ability to articulate or demonstrate how they operate and subvert common security controls
• Knowledge of industry security standards and frameworks (CIS NIST SOC2 PCI/DSS DORA) and ability to translate those into policy and controls.
• Familiarity with automation and Agentic AI runtimes a plus

Youll 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 well help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. Youll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

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• 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 $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 part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.