Lead Detection Engineer, Cyber Defense & Response
Prudential Financial
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This role pays less than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $155,261–$201,800 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $164k versus about $179k for comparable roles.
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Prudential Financial is a global financial services leader and premier active global investment manager.
Prudential Financial currently has 44 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $123,700–$202,050 across 18 roles with salary data.
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JOB TITLE: Lead, Incident Response The Lead, Incident Response serves as an individual technical contributor within the Cyber Defense & Response team. This role involves conducting digital forensic and incident response analysis, responding to security incidents, assisting with threat hunting operations, and performing incident readiness activities in a global corporate environment. The successful candidate will perform enterprise-wide investigations across on-prem and cloud technologies including Active Directory/Entra, M365, Azure, and AWS. Daily tasks include leveraging Splunk’s SPL and Microsoft’s KQL, utilizing EDR tooling, and performing log, host, memory, and network-based forensics. Key responsibilities include malicious code triage, developing scripts and automation workflows in XSOAR, and using forensic software suites like X-Ways or EnCase. Expertise in Python, PowerShell, Bash, and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK is required to solve complex cybersecurity problems.
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