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SOC Analyst roles in cybersecurity qualify for STEM OPT because they map to CIP codes in computer science and information technology. Your STEM degree gives you up to 24 months of extended work authorization beyond initial OPT, but every employer must be enrolled in E-Verify before your extension is approved.
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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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Verify your CIP code maps correctly
Check that your degree's CIP code aligns with SOC Analyst roles before applying. Computer science, information assurance, and cybersecurity CIP codes are the most defensible matches. Your DSO confirms the mapping on your I-20 before recommending the STEM extension.
Filter employers by E-Verify enrollment status
Ask recruiting contacts directly whether their company is enrolled in E-Verify before you advance to offer negotiations. STEM OPT authorization is contingent on employer enrollment, and discovering a gap late in the process costs you time on your 12-month initial OPT clock.
Benchmark your offer against OFLC Wage Search data
Pull the prevailing wage for SOC Analyst roles in your target metro using the OFLC Wage Search before you receive an offer. The I-983 training plan must document compensation, so knowing the wage floor lets you flag underpaying positions before you're committed.
Use Migrate Mate to target verified STEM OPT employers
Search SOC Analyst openings on Migrate Mate, which filters for employers with confirmed E-Verify enrollment. This cuts the verification step you'd otherwise handle manually and focuses your applications on companies already set up to file your training plan.
Draft your I-983 training plan before your offer closes
Prepare a draft I-983 with your expected SOC Analyst duties, tools, and learning objectives so you can present it to your employer at the offer stage. Employers unfamiliar with STEM OPT move faster when you arrive with a near-complete form rather than a blank one.
Track your OPT end date against cap-gap eligibility
If your employer files an H-1B visa petition for you before your OPT expires, cap-gap protection extends your work authorization through September 30 of the fiscal year. Confirm with USCIS guidance that your SOC Analyst role qualifies as a specialty occupation before relying on cap-gap coverage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a SOC Analyst role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, if your degree is in a qualifying STEM field such as computer science, information assurance, or cybersecurity. The CIP code on your I-20 must align with the SOC Analyst occupation code. Your DSO verifies this alignment before recommending the 24-month extension to USCIS, so confirm the match early rather than at the filing stage.
What E-Verify requirement applies to SOC Analyst employers hiring STEM OPT students?
Every employer that hires a STEM OPT student must be actively enrolled in E-Verify. Enrollment is a federal requirement, not a company preference, and your 24-month extension cannot be approved without it. Before accepting a SOC Analyst offer, ask the recruiter or HR contact to confirm E-Verify participation. Migrate Mate surfaces employers that already meet this requirement so you can focus applications there.
What does the I-983 training plan require for a SOC Analyst position?
The I-983 must document your specific SOC Analyst duties, the cybersecurity skills you'll develop, the tools and platforms involved, and how the role relates to your STEM degree. Both you and your employer sign it, and your DSO must also recommend approval. The plan is submitted to your school, not to USCIS, but it must be in place before your STEM extension begins.
Can I switch SOC Analyst employers during my STEM OPT period?
Yes, but the process restarts with each change. Your new employer must be enrolled in E-Verify, you and the new employer must complete a revised I-983, and your DSO must recommend the updated plan. You have up to 10 days between jobs without violating your status. Report the change through SEVIS within the required window to stay in compliance.
How does cap-gap protection work if my SOC Analyst employer files an H-1B petition?
If your employer files a timely H-1B cap-subject petition before your OPT EAD expires, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization through September 30. The SOC Analyst role must qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B to be valid. USCIS issues a cap-gap extension on your I-20, which serves as the work authorization document during that bridging period.