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Director, Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Prudential Financial

Job Description

Posted on: 
February 24, 2025

Summary and company overview

Your Team & Role

As a Director, Digital Forensics & Incident Response in the Global Technology & Operations organization, supporting the Cyber Defense & Response’s Innovation & Automation team, you will partner with other security professionals to improve the security of the company and respond to cybersecurity threats. You will explain difficult concepts and influence others. You will develop correlative response automation, integrate new technologies and processes; will be relied upon for additional Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) expertise, serve as an incident commander at times; and will work in close collaboration with colleagues responsible for threat analysis, threat hunting, incident response, insider risk, threat intelligence, detection engineering, and resilience.

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!

Responsibilities

  • Perform highly complex daily project and operational work, with ownership of the solution/process. Provide guidance to more junior team members.
  • Identify, orchestrate, implement, and document solutions for improvement to all aspects of the Cyber Defense and Response team.
  • Implement Agile practices when working with other technology teams to increase Prudential’s security posture.
  • Proactively engage with IT peers and business stakeholders to ensure an appropriate Information Security mindset is in place with our technology and business partners.

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in digital Forensics, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
  • Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas.
  • Strong problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Applied management and leadership skills.
  • Experience in data analysis at scale.
  • Proficiency in command-line based operations.
  • Proven experience in digital forensics and incident response, ideally in large corporate/government environments.
  • Experience performing host, log, memory, network, and cloud forensics.
  • Familiarity in operating system scripting utilizing Bash or PowerShell.
  • Experience conducting digital forensic examinations of Windows, Linux, and MacOS endpoints.
  • Experience with CI/CD operations.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:
  • Python (preferred) or another object-oriented programming language.
  • Use of Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and the Search Processing Language (SPL).
  • Use of Kusto Query Language (KQL).
  • Implementation and customization of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms.
  • Infrastructure as code.
  • Creating and consuming APIs
  • GCFE, GCFA, GNFA, GREM, or similar industry-accepted certifications.
  • Experience reversing and analyzing malicious software.
  • Experience with Front-end frameworks for web development.

Additional commentary

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 $164,700.00 to $222,700.00. 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), 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.

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 accommodations.hw@prudential.com.

If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email careers.technicalsupport@prudential.com to request assistance.

Summary and company overview

Your Team & Role

As a Director, Digital Forensics & Incident Response in the Global Technology & Operations organization, supporting the Cyber Defense & Response’s Innovation & Automation team, you will partner with other security professionals to improve the security of the company and respond to cybersecurity threats. You will explain difficult concepts and influence others. You will develop correlative response automation, integrate new technologies and processes; will be relied upon for additional Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) expertise, serve as an incident commander at times; and will work in close collaboration with colleagues responsible for threat analysis, threat hunting, incident response, insider risk, threat intelligence, detection engineering, and resilience.

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!

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