STEM OPT Security Analyst Jobs
Security Analyst roles sit squarely within STEM-designated CIP codes, making them a strong fit for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify, and your degree in computer science, information technology, or a related STEM field qualifies you to work up to 36 months total on OPT.
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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 Specialist, Network Security Analyst within the Network Security Strategy & Analysis team within the ISO Infrastructure Security team, you will use network, security, asset, configuration, and vulnerability data to identify risk, quantify technical debt, evaluate control effectiveness, and support strategic network security decisions. You will partner with Network Engineering, Network Security Operations, Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, Architecture, and other security teams to convert complex data into validated findings, prioritized recommendations, dashboards, and measurable risk-reduction actions. You will explain complex concepts and influence others to adopt data-supported points of view while working on complex problems that require an in-depth evaluation of security controls and business context.
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
- Collect, normalize, correlate, and analyze data from SIEM, firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, network, vulnerability, asset, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint, and identity sources.
- Identify unmanaged assets, insecure access paths, legacy technologies, control gaps, configuration weaknesses, segmentation issues, and other areas of network security technical debt.
- Build repeatable analytics, queries, dashboards, and reports that measure network security posture, exposure, control coverage, risk-reduction progress, and data quality.
- Perform complex analysis independently with minimal assistance, documenting methods, assumptions, limitations, validation steps, and recommended actions.
- Partner with network, infrastructure, application, cloud, identity, and security teams to validate findings, resolve data discrepancies, and establish accountable remediation plans.
- Support current-state assessments and strategy work for NAC, segmentation, Zero Trust, ZTNA, firewall modernization, proxy transformation, and related capabilities.
- Translate analytical findings into concise risk statements, decision-ready summaries, visualizations, and presentations for technical and leadership audiences.
- Maintain a network security risk and technical-debt inventory, including evidence, ownership, prioritization, dependencies, status, and risk-acceptance information.
- Automate recurring data preparation, quality checks, correlation, and reporting where practical and maintain clear process and query documentation.
- Continuously improve analytical methods, data sources, metrics, and validation processes based on stakeholder feedback and evolving risk priorities.
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
- Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or equivalent experience in related fields.
- Applied experience in cybersecurity, network engineering, security analytics, risk analysis, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with incomplete or inconsistent enterprise data and produce defensible conclusions.
- Experience developing queries, dashboards, metrics, or reports using security and technology data.
- Ability to independently manage assigned analysis and project work while escalating material risks, blockers, and data-quality concerns appropriately.
- Knowledge of business concepts and information security tools and processes needed to make sound decisions within the company context.
- Experience with agile ways of working and collaboration across geographically and functionally diverse teams.
- Excellent written communication, presentation, documentation, and collaboration skills.
Applied Experience with Several of the Following
- Splunk or comparable SIEM and analytics platforms, including search development, field normalization, lookups, dashboards, and scheduled reporting.
- SQL, Python, PowerShell, or comparable methods for data manipulation, correlation, automation, and quality validation.
- Firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, DNS, flow, routing, switching, authentication, and remote-access telemetry, including Zscaler data where applicable.
- Asset inventories, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint-management, identity, vulnerability-management, and ServiceNow data.
- Network concepts such as IP addressing, subnets, VLANs, routing, ACLs, firewall policy, NAT, segmentation, and application connectivity.
- Information Security risk assessments, control testing, issue management, exception processes, and technical-debt tracking.
- NIST and ISO 27000 standards, CIS Controls, Zero Trust concepts, and information security control standards and engineering specifications.
- Data visualization, KPI/KRI design, trend analysis, executive reporting, and measurement of control effectiveness and remediation outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Security, networking, analytics, cloud, Splunk, Zscaler, or GIAC certification.
- Experience analyzing data in a large enterprise with multiple network and security platforms.
- Experience supporting network segmentation, NAC, Zero Trust, firewall-rule analysis, or technical-debt reduction initiatives.
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 $89,000.00 to $147,000.00. 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 Specialist, Network Security Analyst within the Network Security Strategy & Analysis team within the ISO Infrastructure Security team, you will use network, security, asset, configuration, and vulnerability data to identify risk, quantify technical debt, evaluate control effectiveness, and support strategic network security decisions. You will partner with Network Engineering, Network Security Operations, Infrastructure, Cloud, Identity, Architecture, and other security teams to convert complex data into validated findings, prioritized recommendations, dashboards, and measurable risk-reduction actions. You will explain complex concepts and influence others to adopt data-supported points of view while working on complex problems that require an in-depth evaluation of security controls and business context.
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
- Collect, normalize, correlate, and analyze data from SIEM, firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, network, vulnerability, asset, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint, and identity sources.
- Identify unmanaged assets, insecure access paths, legacy technologies, control gaps, configuration weaknesses, segmentation issues, and other areas of network security technical debt.
- Build repeatable analytics, queries, dashboards, and reports that measure network security posture, exposure, control coverage, risk-reduction progress, and data quality.
- Perform complex analysis independently with minimal assistance, documenting methods, assumptions, limitations, validation steps, and recommended actions.
- Partner with network, infrastructure, application, cloud, identity, and security teams to validate findings, resolve data discrepancies, and establish accountable remediation plans.
- Support current-state assessments and strategy work for NAC, segmentation, Zero Trust, ZTNA, firewall modernization, proxy transformation, and related capabilities.
- Translate analytical findings into concise risk statements, decision-ready summaries, visualizations, and presentations for technical and leadership audiences.
- Maintain a network security risk and technical-debt inventory, including evidence, ownership, prioritization, dependencies, status, and risk-acceptance information.
- Automate recurring data preparation, quality checks, correlation, and reporting where practical and maintain clear process and query documentation.
- Continuously improve analytical methods, data sources, metrics, and validation processes based on stakeholder feedback and evolving risk priorities.
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
- Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or equivalent experience in related fields.
- Applied experience in cybersecurity, network engineering, security analytics, risk analysis, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with incomplete or inconsistent enterprise data and produce defensible conclusions.
- Experience developing queries, dashboards, metrics, or reports using security and technology data.
- Ability to independently manage assigned analysis and project work while escalating material risks, blockers, and data-quality concerns appropriately.
- Knowledge of business concepts and information security tools and processes needed to make sound decisions within the company context.
- Experience with agile ways of working and collaboration across geographically and functionally diverse teams.
- Excellent written communication, presentation, documentation, and collaboration skills.
Applied Experience with Several of the Following
- Splunk or comparable SIEM and analytics platforms, including search development, field normalization, lookups, dashboards, and scheduled reporting.
- SQL, Python, PowerShell, or comparable methods for data manipulation, correlation, automation, and quality validation.
- Firewall, proxy, ZTNA, NAC, DNS, flow, routing, switching, authentication, and remote-access telemetry, including Zscaler data where applicable.
- Asset inventories, CMDB, IPAM, endpoint-management, identity, vulnerability-management, and ServiceNow data.
- Network concepts such as IP addressing, subnets, VLANs, routing, ACLs, firewall policy, NAT, segmentation, and application connectivity.
- Information Security risk assessments, control testing, issue management, exception processes, and technical-debt tracking.
- NIST and ISO 27000 standards, CIS Controls, Zero Trust concepts, and information security control standards and engineering specifications.
- Data visualization, KPI/KRI design, trend analysis, executive reporting, and measurement of control effectiveness and remediation outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Security, networking, analytics, cloud, Splunk, Zscaler, or GIAC certification.
- Experience analyzing data in a large enterprise with multiple network and security platforms.
- Experience supporting network segmentation, NAC, Zero Trust, firewall-rule analysis, or technical-debt reduction initiatives.
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 $89,000.00 to $147,000.00. 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 STEM OPT Authorization as a Security Analyst
Verify your CIP code matches Security Analyst
Check that your degree's CIP code falls under a STEM-designated field recognized by ICE. Computer science (11.0701), information assurance (11.0901), and cybersecurity (11.1003) all support STEM OPT eligibility for Security Analyst roles.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify before your DSO can issue the STEM OPT I-20 extension. Ask hiring managers directly, or search the E-Verify employer database by company name before signing anything.
Tailor your I-983 training plan to security work
Your I-983 must list specific learning objectives tied to your Security Analyst duties, such as threat detection, incident response, or vulnerability assessment. Vague descriptions like 'general IT work' invite RFEs and risk your extension approval.
Target employers with active LCA filings in cybersecurity
Use Migrate Mate to filter Security Analyst roles by employers with verified E-Verify enrollment and Labor Condition Application filing history in cybersecurity SOC codes, so you're only applying where STEM OPT is already operationally supported.
Use OFLC Wage Search to benchmark your offer
Security Analyst prevailing wages vary by metropolitan area and experience level. Run the OFLC Wage Search before your offer negotiation so you know whether the salary meets DOL wage-level requirements for your location and role classification.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Security Analyst role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, if your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, or a related discipline with a qualifying CIP code. The role itself must also use your STEM training in a meaningful way, which your I-983 training plan documents. Your DSO confirms eligibility before issuing the extended I-20.
How do I find Security Analyst employers who are enrolled in E-Verify?
E-Verify enrollment is required for any employer hiring a STEM OPT student. You can search the official E-Verify employer database by company name to confirm enrollment status before applying. Migrate Mate also filters Security Analyst listings by employers with verified E-Verify enrollment and active LCA filing history, saving you the manual lookup.
What goes into the I-983 training plan for a Security Analyst position?
Your I-983 must specify concrete learning objectives directly tied to your Security Analyst duties, your supervising employer's name and E-Verify company ID, your compensation, and how the work relates to your STEM degree. Both you and your employer sign it. Objectives should name specific competencies like log analysis, SIEM platform use, or incident response protocols rather than generic job descriptions.
What happens to my STEM OPT authorization if my Security Analyst employer loses E-Verify enrollment?
You must stop working immediately if your employer's E-Verify participation is terminated. USCIS requires you to report the change to your DSO within five business days. Your DSO will update your SEVIS record, and you'll need to find a new E-Verify-enrolled employer and file an amended I-983 to continue your STEM OPT period lawfully.
Can I use my STEM OPT cap-gap period to keep working as a Security Analyst while my H-1B is pending?
Yes. If your employer files an H-1B petition on your behalf before your OPT EAD expires, cap-gap protection extends your work authorization automatically through September 30 of the fiscal year, or until USCIS adjudicates the petition. You can continue working in your Security Analyst role during this period without interruption, as long as your status remains otherwise valid.