Cloud & Container Security Specialist

About the role

The Global Technology team at Prudential takes pride in fostering a culture where digital transformation is integral to our operations. As a Specialist for Cloud/Containers on the Attack Surface Management Team, you will play a crucial role in driving cloud security initiatives across the global enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, implementation, and enhancement of Prudential’s cloud and container monitoring and assessment capabilities.
• Triage, prioritize, drive remediation, and validate mitigating controls of cloud and container-related misconfiguration findings and drive continuous monitoring against industry and enterprise security posture.
• Proactively identify and implement security improvements in the environment, especially those related to prevention and validation.
• Examine current state, industry/technology trends, and business requirements to drive innovation.
• Provide SME guidance and review to stakeholders on remediation, exception requests, prioritization, and mitigations.
• Share and evolve reporting metrics that relay proper risk posture to leadership.
• Ideate and implement improvements to processes, metrics, and documentation to mature security posture and risk management capabilities.
• Partner with leadership to set direction for the future of the Attack Surface Management program, while ensuring an accurate understanding and in-depth knowledge of daily operations to provide recommendations to team objectives.
• Develop security policies and compliance initiatives derived from industry standards.

Requirements

Demonstrated expertise in cloud and container security.

Expertise in container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS).

Familiarity with compliance posture to risk and threat correlation.

Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security posture management tools, as well as common vulnerability data sources and frameworks.

Experience improving cloud compliance posture management processes as well as assessments of risk management for container and cloud environments.

Ability to collaborate with engineering teams to provide SME knowledge of vulnerabilities associated with cloud and container workloads that validate risk reduction effectiveness and reduction of false positives, and consult on mitigations.

Engineering mindset – systems thinking, creative problem solving, deductive reasoning.

Effective communication and documentation.

Skills & Expertise

• Scripting background (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.).
• Familiarity with cloud posture management tools CSPM and frameworks.
• Familiarity with audit processes and evidence requirements.
• Understanding of threat actors, with the ability to articulate or demonstrate how they operate and subvert common security controls.
• Knowledge of industry security standards and frameworks (CIS, NIST, SOC2, PCI/DSS, DORA) and ability to translate those into policy and controls.
• Familiarity with automation and Agentic AI runtimes (plus).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD and SecDevOps.
• Familiarity with audit processes and evidence requirements.
• Understanding of threat actors, with the ability to articulate or demonstrate how they operate and subvert common security controls.
• Knowledge of industry security standards and frameworks (CIS, NIST, SOC2, PCI/DSS, DORA) and ability to translate those into policy and controls.
• Familiarity with automation and Agentic AI runtimes (plus).

Benefits

Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.

401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).

Company-funded pension plan.

Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.

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.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.