Lead, Digital Forensics & Incident Response- Automation & Innovation
Prudential Financial
- Newark, NJ
- $125,000-186,100 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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.
- Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong 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 OSX endpoints.
- Experience with CI/CD operations.
- 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.
- 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
- Retirement plans:
- 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)
- Company-funded pension plan
- Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, 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.
- Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
- 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.
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