Specialist, 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 a Specialist, 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 a combination of automated and manual offensive testing, communicating complex concepts, and influencing others to adopt an attacker mindset. You will work on difficult problems in which analysis of context or data requires an in-depth evaluation of security controls.

In addition to your hands-on experience in offensive security, you demonstrate a strong ability to solve complex problems and communicate effectively within your team and across the organization. You consistently collaborate with others, showing a commitment to teamwork and agile work practices. Your deep understanding of the business environment informs your technical decisions, ensuring solutions align with organizational goals. Finally, your dedication to continuous learning ensures that you stay current with industry developments and maintain a forward-thinking approach in all your professional endeavors.
** The Skills & Expertise You Bring
** Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

Experience with agile development methodologies

Knowledge of business concepts and information security 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

Strong written and verbal communication skills, specifically in the infosec domain. The work the Offensive Security team does is highly technical and consumed by many different audiences. Being able to bridge the gap and communicate effectively to these audiences will be invaluable and ultimately lead to decreased cyber risk.
** Applied experience with several of the following:
** Comprehensive knowledge of different network and web protocols (such as TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), web sockets, LDAP) and web technology stacks.

Demonstrates a thorough understanding of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). This includes the ability to identify and analyze the strategies employed by threat actors in order to enhance the organization’s defensive posture

Able to read, understand, and work with code in one or more programming languages.

Preferred qualifications:

Familiarity with Exploit Development, Cloud, or Mobile Security is a plus.

Experience with developing and using C2 frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Empire, SCYTHE, and Metasploit.  In-depth knowledge of evasion techniques, including experience with developing custom payloads and bypassing security controls. 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 management as of Dec.

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