Principal Incident Response Engineer

Location: Remote, Missouri, United States of America

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RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

The Principle Incident Response Engineer ("DFIR") leads complex cyber investigations, strengthen RGA's enterprise resilience, and guide security teams through critical incidents. This role combines hands-on DFIR expertise, strategic advisory capabilities, stakeholder engagement, and security program leadership across global environments. Deliver measurable, cross organizational, impactful projects. Enable global Security Operations by delivering operations, development, and engineering

This position provides technical leadership during investigations, influence strategic security decisions, contribute to capability development, and serve as a trusted advisor for cybersecurity risk management and response readiness.

Principle Duties

• If required, participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, alert triage, investigation
• Lead enterprise incident response and cyber crisis engagements from detection through recovery.
• Direct host, network, cloud, identity, and SaaS investigations across Windows, Linux, macOS, Microsoft 365, AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
• Perform advanced threat hunting and compromise assessments using SIEM, EDR, forensic, and threat intelligence platforms.
• Develop containment, eradication, and remediation strategies aligned to business risk.
• Produce executive briefings, technical reports, board-ready updates, and post-incident reviews.
• Partner with legal, compliance, privacy, audit, and external stakeholders when required.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted workflows to improve investigation speed, reporting quality, and operational efficiency.
• Support the 24/7 on-call rotation.

Education

Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) or equivalent experience required

Work Experience

8+ years in incident response, DFIR, security operations, consulting, or related cybersecurity disciplines - Required

10+ Years of relevant experience preferred

Skills and Abilities

Ability to lead complex incidents and evolve strategies based on new information - Required

Experience leading major cyber incidents involving ransomware, business email compromise, insider threats, cloud compromise, supply chain attacks, or advanced persistent threats - Required

Strong digital forensics capability using industry-standard forensic and triage tools - Required

Experience with Splunk, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike Falcon, ServiceNow SIR, and cloud security technologies - Required

Knowledge of network protocols, detection engineering, log analytics, and threat hunting methodologies - Required

Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and executive audiences - Required

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a global enterprise environment.

Forensic tools (FTK, Encase, X-Ways, Magnet Axiom, SIFT or other) experience - Required

Advanced analytical skills with the ability to investigate network, host, cloud and identity platforms - Required

Strong written and verbal communications skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with partner teams - Required

Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions - Required

Advanced investigative, analytical and problem solving skills - Required

Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously - Required

Ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables - Required

Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions - Required

Technical Requirements: Windows, Mac, and Linux internals, Scripting (Powershell/Python/Javascript/Typescript) , Forensic tools (FTK, Encase, X-Ways, SIFT), Cloud computing (AWS), M365 suite and ecosystem, Microsoft domain environments, IAM/AAA technologies and architectures (Active Directory, Okta, OpenID, SAML, Oauth, JWT), Physical and Virtual networking technologies and architecture, Physical and Virtual networking defensive technologies, SIEM (Splunk), EDR (CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender), Threat Intelligence Platforms and Feeds, Email architecture and security, DNS architecture and security - Required

Industry-level contributions (conferences, publications, tooling, seminars) - Preferred

Professional Industry certification - Preferred

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What you can expect from RGA

Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

We’re excited to get to know you and connect your unique skills with our global opportunities. To create a modern and seamless experience, we use artificial intelligence (AI) in parts of our preliminary screening process. This technology helps us personalize job recommendations, automate interview scheduling, evaluate candidates based solely on experience—without considering name, gender, or other personal details—and provide real-time answers through our chatbot. AI is used only during early screening and never makes hiring decisions. Your RGA recruiter will work closely with you every step of the way to ensure the process feels personal, thoughtful, and focused on you.

Compensation Range

$126,710.00 - $188,840.00 Annual

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.