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Network Security Specialist roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under USCIS guidelines, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field. Employers file the LCA with DOL before petitioning USCIS, and the 85,000-slot annual cap means timing your job search around the April lottery window matters.
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Technology - Information Security
Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA. When you join our organization, you will unlock an exciting and impactful career while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.
Your Team & Role
As a Lead, Network Security Analyst within the Network Security Strategy & Analysis team, within the ISO Infrastructure Security team, you will serve as a senior individual contributor focused on assessing enterprise network security capabilities, identifying risk and technical debt, and developing actionable strategies for Zero Trust, network segmentation, network access control, and network security modernization. You will partner with Network Engineering, Network Security Operations, Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, Architecture, and other security teams to translate analysis into prioritized roadmaps and measurable risk reduction. You will explain difficult concepts, influence stakeholders, and work on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of risk, controls, architecture, and business impact.
This role does not own day-to-day administration or operations of network security platforms; instead, this team will use analysis to drive environmental hardening and risk reduction. Success requires technical depth, strategic thinking, strong analytical judgment, and the ability to lead work through influence across multiple teams.
Here Is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
- Lead complex current-state analysis/assessments of network security architecture, controls, processes, and technical debt across campus, data center, cloud, and remote-access environments.
- Develop strategic recommendations, target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and prioritized risk-reduction plans for Zero Trust networking, segmentation, NAC, ZTNA, firewall, proxy, and related capabilities.
- Analyze architecture, configuration, telemetry, asset, vulnerability, and control data to identify material risks, systemic gaps, and opportunities to harden the environment.
- Functionally lead workstreams and provide technical guidance to less-experienced team members without direct people-management responsibility.
- Partner with operational and engineering teams that own the technologies to validate findings, define remediation approaches, establish milestones, and drive agreed actions to completion.
- Participate in security architecture and design reviews, documenting requirements, assumptions, risks, compensating controls, and recommended decisions.
- Contribute to reusable reference architectures, security patterns, engineering requirements, decision frameworks, and assessment methods aligned to enterprise standards.
- Communicate complex network security risks and tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders using concise, evidence-based recommendations.
- Define outcome-oriented metrics and contribute to executive reporting that demonstrates risk reduction, control maturity, roadmap progress, and technical-debt retirement.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices and recommend where they should influence the network security strategy.
- Be the network security subject matter expert within the ISO Infrastructure Security Team.
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
- Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience in related fields.
- Advanced network security engineering, architecture, advisory, or strategy experience in a large and complex enterprise environment.
- Ability to independently structure ambiguous problems, develop analysis plans, evaluate alternatives, and deliver clear recommendations with minimal guidance.
- Ability to functionally lead complex work, mentor others, and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, and perspectives.
- Strong business insight and the ability to balance security risk, operational feasibility, customer impact, cost, and delivery constraints.
- Experience with agile delivery or program-management methods and cross-functional execution.
- Excellent problem solving, written communication, executive presentation, facilitation, and collaboration skills.
Advanced Experience and/or Expertise with Several of the Following
- Enterprise network architecture and security controls across campus, branch, data center, cloud, internet edge, and remote-access environments.
- Firewalls, secure web gateways, proxies, ZTNA, VPN, DNS security, WAF, load balancers, and network detection capabilities, including platforms such as Check Point, Cisco, and Zscaler.
- Zero Trust principles, NIST SP 800-207, identity-aware access, least privilege, continuous verification, and policy-based access models.
- Network segmentation and microsegmentation strategies, trust-zone design, application dependency analysis, and east-west traffic controls.
- NAC strategy and design, including device discovery, profiling, authentication, authorization, 802.1X, exception handling, and phased enterprise adoption.
- Security architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk assessments, control design, compensating controls, and remediation planning.
- Information Security policies, standards, procedures, engineering specifications, NIST frameworks, ISO 27000 standards, NIST 800-53, and CIS Controls.
- Security analytics using SIEM, network telemetry, configuration data, asset inventories, vulnerability data, and CMDB/IPAM sources to identify and quantify risk.
- Metrics, KRIs, KPIs, maturity assessments, business cases, and multi-year security roadmaps.
Preferred Qualifications
- CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SANS GIAC, or comparable security certification.
- Advanced network or security certifications from Cisco, Check Point, Zscaler, GIAC, or equivalent providers.
- Experience driving large-scale Zero Trust, segmentation, NAC, firewall modernization, or ZTNA transformation programs.
You'll Love Working Here Because You Can
Join a team and culture where your voice matters and where your work improves security outcomes. As you put your skills to use, we will help you expand both your technical and leadership capabilities through meaningful work and continuous learning.
What we offer you:
Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $114,500.00 to $188,900.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.
- 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).
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. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.
Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email accommodations.hw@prudential.com.
If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email careers.technicalsupport@prudential.com to request assistance.
Job Classification:
Technology - Information Security
Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA. When you join our organization, you will unlock an exciting and impactful career while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.
Your Team & Role
As a Lead, Network Security Analyst within the Network Security Strategy & Analysis team, within the ISO Infrastructure Security team, you will serve as a senior individual contributor focused on assessing enterprise network security capabilities, identifying risk and technical debt, and developing actionable strategies for Zero Trust, network segmentation, network access control, and network security modernization. You will partner with Network Engineering, Network Security Operations, Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, Architecture, and other security teams to translate analysis into prioritized roadmaps and measurable risk reduction. You will explain difficult concepts, influence stakeholders, and work on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of risk, controls, architecture, and business impact.
This role does not own day-to-day administration or operations of network security platforms; instead, this team will use analysis to drive environmental hardening and risk reduction. Success requires technical depth, strategic thinking, strong analytical judgment, and the ability to lead work through influence across multiple teams.
Here Is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
- Lead complex current-state analysis/assessments of network security architecture, controls, processes, and technical debt across campus, data center, cloud, and remote-access environments.
- Develop strategic recommendations, target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and prioritized risk-reduction plans for Zero Trust networking, segmentation, NAC, ZTNA, firewall, proxy, and related capabilities.
- Analyze architecture, configuration, telemetry, asset, vulnerability, and control data to identify material risks, systemic gaps, and opportunities to harden the environment.
- Functionally lead workstreams and provide technical guidance to less-experienced team members without direct people-management responsibility.
- Partner with operational and engineering teams that own the technologies to validate findings, define remediation approaches, establish milestones, and drive agreed actions to completion.
- Participate in security architecture and design reviews, documenting requirements, assumptions, risks, compensating controls, and recommended decisions.
- Contribute to reusable reference architectures, security patterns, engineering requirements, decision frameworks, and assessment methods aligned to enterprise standards.
- Communicate complex network security risks and tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders using concise, evidence-based recommendations.
- Define outcome-oriented metrics and contribute to executive reporting that demonstrates risk reduction, control maturity, roadmap progress, and technical-debt retirement.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices and recommend where they should influence the network security strategy.
- Be the network security subject matter expert within the ISO Infrastructure Security Team.
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
- Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience in related fields.
- Advanced network security engineering, architecture, advisory, or strategy experience in a large and complex enterprise environment.
- Ability to independently structure ambiguous problems, develop analysis plans, evaluate alternatives, and deliver clear recommendations with minimal guidance.
- Ability to functionally lead complex work, mentor others, and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, and perspectives.
- Strong business insight and the ability to balance security risk, operational feasibility, customer impact, cost, and delivery constraints.
- Experience with agile delivery or program-management methods and cross-functional execution.
- Excellent problem solving, written communication, executive presentation, facilitation, and collaboration skills.
Advanced Experience and/or Expertise with Several of the Following
- Enterprise network architecture and security controls across campus, branch, data center, cloud, internet edge, and remote-access environments.
- Firewalls, secure web gateways, proxies, ZTNA, VPN, DNS security, WAF, load balancers, and network detection capabilities, including platforms such as Check Point, Cisco, and Zscaler.
- Zero Trust principles, NIST SP 800-207, identity-aware access, least privilege, continuous verification, and policy-based access models.
- Network segmentation and microsegmentation strategies, trust-zone design, application dependency analysis, and east-west traffic controls.
- NAC strategy and design, including device discovery, profiling, authentication, authorization, 802.1X, exception handling, and phased enterprise adoption.
- Security architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk assessments, control design, compensating controls, and remediation planning.
- Information Security policies, standards, procedures, engineering specifications, NIST frameworks, ISO 27000 standards, NIST 800-53, and CIS Controls.
- Security analytics using SIEM, network telemetry, configuration data, asset inventories, vulnerability data, and CMDB/IPAM sources to identify and quantify risk.
- Metrics, KRIs, KPIs, maturity assessments, business cases, and multi-year security roadmaps.
Preferred Qualifications
- CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SANS GIAC, or comparable security certification.
- Advanced network or security certifications from Cisco, Check Point, Zscaler, GIAC, or equivalent providers.
- Experience driving large-scale Zero Trust, segmentation, NAC, firewall modernization, or ZTNA transformation programs.
You'll Love Working Here Because You Can
Join a team and culture where your voice matters and where your work improves security outcomes. As you put your skills to use, we will help you expand both your technical and leadership capabilities through meaningful work and continuous learning.
What we offer you:
Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $114,500.00 to $188,900.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.
- 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).
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. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.
Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email accommodations.hw@prudential.com.
If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email careers.technicalsupport@prudential.com to request assistance.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Network Security Specialist
Map your credentials to SOC codes
Network Security Specialists typically fall under SOC 15-1212. Confirm your degree and experience align with that classification before applying, because mismatches between your credentials and the employer's LCA job description are a common source of RFEs.
Check employer LCA filings before applying
Use Migrate Mate to filter Network Security Specialist roles by verified LCA filing history. Employers with active DOL certifications for this title have already cleared the prevailing wage step, which shortens your path to an approved petition.
Verify prevailing wage levels using OFLC Wage Search
Before negotiating an offer, look up the Level I through Level IV wage bands for your metro area using OFLC Wage Search. Your offered salary must meet or exceed the certified wage on the LCA, and a shortfall can invalidate the petition.
Target employers enrolled in E-Verify
STEM-adjacent roles in defense contracting, cloud infrastructure, and financial services often require E-Verify enrollment by federal contract rules. These employers run structured HR processes and are generally more experienced with H-1B filings than smaller firms.
Request premium processing before cap-gap expires
If you're transitioning from F-1 OPT and your EAD expires before October 1, ask your employer to file Form I-907 for premium processing. USCIS targets a 15-business-day adjudication, which reduces the gap between OPT expiry and H-1B activation.
Document security clearance eligibility separately from visa status
Some Network Security Specialist roles require a clearance, which is granted by a federal agency, not USCIS. Clarify clearance eligibility with your prospective employer before the offer stage, because a visa-dependent candidate's clearance timeline differs from a U.S. citizen's.
H-1B Visa Network Security Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Network Security Specialist role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. USCIS considers Network Security Specialist positions specialty occupations when the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a closely related field. Roles centered on threat analysis, vulnerability management, or security architecture consistently meet that threshold. Employers document the degree requirement in the LCA and I-129 petition to support the specialty occupation classification.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Network Security Specialist positions?
Federal contractors, large financial institutions, cloud providers, and managed security service providers are among the most active H-1B sponsors for this role. You can browse verified employers with LCA filing history for Network Security Specialist positions on Migrate Mate, which filters listings by DOL Labor Condition Application data so you're only seeing companies that have actively sponsored this job title.
Does a security clearance affect my H-1B sponsorship eligibility?
H-1B status and security clearance eligibility are determined by separate agencies. USCIS adjudicates the visa petition independently of any clearance investigation. Many Network Security Specialist roles in government contracting require a clearance, and some positions are restricted to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. Confirm the clearance requirement before accepting an offer to avoid late-stage disqualification.
Can my employer sponsor me for H-1B if I'm currently on OPT doing network security work?
Yes, and this is one of the most common paths. Your employer files the H-1B petition during the April cap registration window. If selected, your status typically transitions to H-1B on October 1. If your OPT EAD expires before then, cap-gap rules extend your authorization automatically while the petition is pending, provided you remain employed with the same sponsoring employer.
What does the DOL prevailing wage requirement mean for my Network Security Specialist offer?
Before filing your H-1B petition, your employer submits an LCA to DOL certifying that your offered salary meets the prevailing wage for your job title and work location. The wage level, from Level I to Level IV, reflects your experience and responsibilities. If your offer falls below the certified wage, DOL can reject the LCA and block the petition entirely, so confirm the wage level matches your role before signing.