Lead, Cyber Defense & Response

Prudential Financial

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Newark, NJ
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82 days ago
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JOB TITLE: Lead, Cyber Defense & Response The Lead, Cyber Defense & Response serves as a senior technical lead for proactive threat hunting operations across on-prem and cloud environments. Reporting to the Director of Threat Hunting, this role involves leading complex hunts from hypothesis development through operationalization while mentoring other hunters. Key responsibilities include executing advanced investigations, developing hunt hypotheses based on adversary TTPs, and translating findings into durable defensive improvements like new detections or telemetry gap remediations. The role requires proficiency in SIEM/XDR platforms, specifically using Splunk SPL and Microsoft KQL to analyze endpoint, identity, network, and application telemetry. Candidates must apply frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain to identify suspicious patterns, validate attack paths, and improve enterprise visibility and response readiness within a complex financial services environment.

Skills

Splunk KQL SIEM XDR AWS Azure M365 Active Directory Entra MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Kill Chain Incident Response Detection Engineering Threat Hunting

What you'll do

  • Lead proactive threat hunts across on-prem and cloud environments including Azure, AWS, and M365.
  • Develop hunt hypotheses based on emerging threats, adversary TTPs, and internal incident learnings.
  • Execute advanced investigations using SIEM/XDR platforms by authoring Splunk SPL and Microsoft KQL queries.
  • Translate hunt findings into durable defensive improvements such as new detections, use-cases, and response guidance.
  • Partner with Threat Intelligence to convert raw intelligence into environment-specific hunting plans and coverage tracking.
  • Identify logging and data quality deficiencies to drive visibility and resiliency improvements across the enterprise.
  • Provide technical leadership and coaching to threat hunting staff on methodologies, documentation, and analytic approaches.
  • Support incident response by performing adjacency and scoping hunts during active security incidents.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in cyber threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, or security operations in large enterprise environments.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting investigations across endpoint, identity, network, and cloud telemetry in complex environments.
  • Strong proficiency with at least one major SIEM/XDR ecosystem and advanced query authoring.
  • Hands-on experience with Splunk SPL and/or Microsoft KQL (preferred).
  • Working knowledge of attacker tradecraft including credential access, persistence, lateral movement, defense evasion, C2, and data exfiltration.
  • Strong understanding of adversarial frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain.
  • Experience designing or improving hunt programs, including workflow, metrics, reporting, and knowledge management.
  • One or more industry standard certifications such as GIAC, Microsoft SC-200, AZ-500, or CompTIA CySA+ (preferred).

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