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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.\nYour Team & Role\nAs a Lead, Network Security Analystwithin the Network Security Strategy & Analysis team, within the ISO Infrastructure Security team, you will serve as a senior individual contributor focused on assessing enterprise network security capabilities, identifying risk and technical debt, and developing actionable strategies for Zero Trust, network segmentation, network access control, and network security modernization. You will partner with Network Engineering, Network Security Operations, Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, Architecture, and other security teams to translate analysis into prioritized roadmaps and measurable risk reduction. You will explain difficult concepts, influence stakeholders, and work on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of risk, controls, architecture, and business impact.\nThis 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.\nHere Is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day\nLead complex current-state analysis/assessments of network security architecture, controls, processes, and technical debt across campus, data center, cloud, and remote-access environments.\n\nDevelop strategic recommendations, target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and prioritized risk-reduction plans for Zero Trust networking, segmentation, NAC, ZTNA, firewall, proxy, and related capabilities.\n\nAnalyze architecture, configuration, telemetry, asset, vulnerability, and control data to identify material risks, systemic gaps, and opportunities to harden the environment.\n\nFunctionally lead workstreams and provide technical guidance to less-experienced team members without direct people-management responsibility.\n\nPartner with operational and engineering teams that own the technologies to validate findings, define remediation approaches, establish milestones, and drive agreed actions to completion.\n\nParticipate in security architecture and design reviews, documenting requirements, assumptions, risks, compensating controls, and recommended decisions.\n\nContribute toreusable reference architectures, security patterns, engineering requirements, decision frameworks, and assessment methods aligned to enterprise standards.\n\nCommunicate complex network security risks and tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders using concise, evidence-based recommendations.\n\nDefine outcome-oriented metrics and contribute to executive reporting that demonstrates risk reduction, control maturity, roadmap progress, and technical-debt retirement.\n\nEvaluate emerging technologies and industry practices and recommend where they should influence the network security strategy.\n\nBe the network security subject matter expertwithin the ISO Infrastructure Security Team.\n\nThe Skills & Expertise You Bring\nBachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience in related fields.\n\nAdvanced network security engineering, architecture, advisory, or strategy experience in a large and complex enterprise environment.\n\nAbility to independently structure ambiguous problems, develop analysis plans, evaluate alternatives, and deliver clear recommendations with minimal guidance.\n\nAbility to functionally lead complex work, mentor others, and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, and perspectives.\n\nStrong business insight and the ability to balance security risk, operational feasibility, customer impact, cost, and delivery constraints.\n\nExperience with agile delivery or program-management methods and cross-functional execution.\n\nExcellent problem solving, written communication, executive presentation, facilitation, and collaboration skills.\n\nAdvanced Experience and/or Expertise with Several of the Following\nEnterprise network architecture and security controls across campus, branch, data center, cloud, internet edge, and remote-access environments.\n\nFirewalls, secure web gateways, proxies, ZTNA, VPN, DNS security, WAF, load balancers, and network detection capabilities, including platforms such as Check Point, Cisco, and Zscaler.\n\nZero Trust principles, NIST SP 800-207, identity-aware access, least privilege, continuous verification, and policy-based access models.\n\nNetwork segmentation and microsegmentation strategies, trust-zone design, application dependency analysis, and east-west traffic controls.\n\nNAC strategy and design, including device discovery, profiling, authentication, authorization, 802.1X, exception handling, and phased enterprise adoption.\n\nSecurity architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk assessments, control design, compensating controls, and remediation planning.\n\nInformation Security policies, standards, procedures, engineering specifications, NIST frameworks, ISO 27000 standards, NIST 800-53, and CIS Controls.\n\nSecurity analytics using SIEM, network telemetry, configuration data, asset inventories, vulnerability data, and CMDB/IPAM sources to identify and quantify risk.\n\nMetrics, KRIs, KPIs, maturity assessments, business cases, and multi-year security roadmaps.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nCISSP, CCSP, CISM, SANS GIAC, or comparable security certification.\n\nAdvanced network or security certifications from Cisco, Check Point, Zscaler, GIAC, or equivalent providers.\n\nExperience driving large-scale Zero Trust, segmentation, NAC, firewall modernization, or ZTNA transformation programs.\n\nYou'll Love Working Here Because You Can\nJoin 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.\nWhat we offer you:\nPrudential 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 $114,500.00 to $188,900.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.\nMarket competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.\n Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.\n401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%). \nCompany-funded pension plan. \nWellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs. \nWork/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development. \nEducation Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs. \n Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).\nEligibility 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.\nPrudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.\nPrudential is an equal opportunity employer. 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