Threat Engineer

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated • Creve Coeur, MO

2d • $78,080 - $110,860 • Hybrid

About The Position

You desire impactful work. You’re RGA ready 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. Responsible for supporting and maturing standards, procedures, and processes to manage, mitigate, and reduce cyber risk to RGA through proactive threat hunting and detection engineering. This role participates in operational monitoring while authoring, tuning, and maintaining detections, performing hypothesis‑driven threat hunts, and translates adversary behavior into actionable alerts and telemetry improvements.

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree (AA) or equivalent experience - Required
• 1+ Years of experience in one or more areas; incident response, security engineering, offensive security, threat emulation, penetration testing, or security operations - Required
• Experience identifying and addressing telemetry gaps in security monitoring - Required
• Experience contributing to purple team, including supporting risk hunting, telemetry validation, detection efficacy - Required
• Experience developing and supporting cybersecurity metrics and reporting to support security operations - Required
• Ability to support complex incidents and evolve strategies based on new information - Required
• Junior level analytical skills with the ability to investigate network, host, cloud and identity platforms - Required globally distributed environment - Required
• Ability to work independently within a globally distributed environment - Required
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Assist in creating automation\workflows to scale security operations - Required
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions - Required
• Junior level investigative, analytical and problem solving skills required
• Junior level ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously - Required
• Ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables required
• Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects - Required
• Technical Requirements: Windows, Mac, and Linux internals, 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, SIEM (Splunk), EDR (CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender), Email security, DNS - Required

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or professional industry certification - Preferred
• 2+ Years of relevant experience - Preferred
• Technical Requirements: Cloud Computing (GCP, Azure), Forensic tools (FTK, Encase, X-Ways, SIFT), Scripting (Powershell/Python/Javascript/Typescript), Service Now - Preferred

Responsibilities

• If required, participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, alert triage, investigation
• Support the following functions: threat detection, offensive security
• Support the development of orchestrations and automations that reduce manual tasks
• Perform junior level intrusion and/or defensive analysis
• Support security related audit/compliance/risk-reduction efforts at a junior level
• Support offensive and/or defensive security tool development, procurement, and management
• Determine and deliver logging requirements to better detect and respond to security threats
• Support the delivery of projects that drive down the overall risk and/or impact of a cybersecurity incident
• Performs other duties as assigned

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees