Lead, Offensive Security Engineer

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.
** Your Team & Role
** As aLead Offensive Security Engineer  on the Attack Surface Management team, you will be at the forefront of our efforts to identify and mitigatesecurityrisks. Your responsibilities will include conducting sophisticated red team and purple team exercises to challenge and refine our defensive strategies. You will conduct a variety of penetration testing activities, focusing on diverse targets such as web applications, AI systems, and Active Directory environments, in order to uncover and address vulnerabilities.

Beyond traditionaloffensivesecurityoperations, you will also play a key role in supporting and advancing our bug bounty program, ensuring that any potential threats are swiftly identified and resolved.:
Regularly research and learn new TTPs in public and closed forums. Work with teammates to assess Prudential’s risk and work with teams to implement and validate controls as necessary.
** Knowledge Sharing and Training**:
Conduct internal training sessions, workshops, and presentations to share insights and improve the overall skill level of thesecurityteam. Mentor and knowledge share with other

Offensive

Security engineers on the team.
** 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 company's business Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
** Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:
** Proven experience conducting a variety ofoffensivesecurityoperations, including red teaming and penetration testing across multiple domains such as network, web applications, mobile platforms, cloud environments, social engineering tactics, and scripting or tool creation. Experience performingsecurityreviews of existing infrastructure and demonstrating vulnerabilities

Knowledge of adversarial TTPs Proficiency rating vulnerabilities using the CVSS scoring system

Experience with Threat Modeling, preferably using the STRIDE methodology

Experience with enterprise attack surface reduction strategies and mapping attack paths in complex Active Directory environments. Proficiency in one or more programming languages, and can both read and understand code written by others.

Knowledge of exploiting vulnerabilities in Entra , AWS IAM, or other cloud identity systems.

Preferred qualifications:

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, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.
** 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.  Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week. Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a global financial services leader and premier active global investment manager with approximately $1.4 trillion in assets under…