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About Prudential Financial
Prudential Financial is a global financial services leader and premier active global investment manager.
Prudential Financial currently has
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Listed pay typically runs
$123,700–$202,050
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Specialist, Cyber Detection Engineer serves as a hands-on technical contributor on the Global Technology Operations team, responsible for designing and maintaining enterprise threat detection capabilities across on-premise and cloud environments. The role involves operationalizing security alerting, developing custom detections across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and application domains, and transforming threat intelligence and purple-team results into actionable content. To succeed, the candidate must possess experience in detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting within large enterprise environments. Required technical skills include proficiency with SIEM/XDR platforms, advanced query authoring using Splunk SPL, Microsoft KQL, or SQL, and scripting in Python or PowerShell to interact with REST/GraphQL APIs. The role focuses on the core problem of aligning detection capabilities with the evolving threat landscape by utilizing MITRE ATT&CK to ensure robust coverage against adversary tradecraft.