Principal Incident Response Engineer

RGA Reinsurance Company Hong Kong Branch; United States; Remote; USD 127,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

RGA Reinsurance Company Hong Kong Branch seeks an experienced cybersecurity leader to own and execute security operations and risk reduction initiatives across incident response, threat detection, and offensive/defensive tooling. You will guide automation, telemetry validation, and cross-team collaboration to protect global assets.

With a Master’s degree and 8+ years in security domains, you will mentor staff, deliver executive-level metrics, and drive cross-organization initiatives while

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) or equivalent experience required.
• 8+ years of experience in incident response, security engineering, offensive security, threat emulation, penetration testing, or security operations.
• 5+ years of experience creating automations/workflows to scale security operations.
• Strong experience identifying telemetry gaps in security monitoring.
• Experience developing and reporting cybersecurity metrics for security operations.
• Experience leading purple team exercises, risk hunting, telemetry validation, and detection efficacy.
• 10+ years of relevant experience preferred.
• Ability to lead complex incidents and adapt strategies to new information.
• Advanced analytical skills across networks, hosts, cloud, and identity platforms.
• Ability to work independently in a globally distributed environment.
• Strong written and verbal communications to collaborate with partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, alert triage, and investigations.
• Own team-level ownership of incident response, threat detection, or offensive security.
• Lead development of orchestrations and automations to reduce manual tasks.
• Perform expert-level intrusion and defensive analysis.
• Oversee security audit, compliance, and risk-reduction efforts for the team.
• Develop and deliver offensive/defensive security tooling, testing, and management.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members.
• Develop and deliver organizational and executive-level metrics/reports.
• Implement cross-team processes for internal stakeholders and external reporters.
• Own and deliver team-level projects to reduce cybersecurity risk and impact.

Skills

Incident response

Security engineering

Offensive security

Threat emulation

Security operations

Automation

Telemetry analysis

Leadership

Education

Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences

Tools

FTK

EnCase

X-Ways

SIFT

CrowdStrike

Microsoft Defender

Splunk

Job description

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.

A Brief Overview

Responsible for owning, creating and executing standards, procedures, and processes that manage, mitigate, and reduce the risk of cyberattacks against RGA. Provide leadership and accountability for project and service delivery. Deliver measurable, cross organizational, impactful projects. Enable global Security Operations by delivering operations, development, and engineering

What you will do

• If required, participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, alert triage, investigation
• Accountable for team level ownership of one or more of the following functions: incident response, threat detection, offensive security
• Lead the development of orchestrations and automations that significantly reduce manual tasks
• Perform expert-level instrusion and/or defensive analysis
• Responsible for security related audit/compliance/risk-reduction effortsfor the team
• Own and deliver offensive and/or defensive security tooling development, testing, and management. Responsible for team-level logging requirements to better detect and respond to security threats
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members
• Develop and deliver metrics/reportsat an Organizational, Company, and/or Executive level
• Develop and implement cross team functions and process for internal stakeholders and external reporters (partners, vendors, governments, individuals)
• Own and deliver team level projects that drive down the overall risk and/or impact of a cybersecurity incident

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) or equivalent experience required
• 8+ Years of experience in one or more areas: incident response, security engineering, offensive security, threat emulation, penetration testing, or security operations required
• 5+ Years experience creating automation/workflows to scale security operations required
• Strong experience identifying and addressing telemetry gaps in security monitoring required
• Experience developing and supporting cybersecurity metrics and reporting to support security operations required
• Experience developing and leading purple team exercises, including supporting risk hunting, telemetry validation, and detection efficacy required
• 10+ Years of relevant experience preferred
• Ability to lead complex incidents and evolve strategies based on new information required
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to investigate network, host, cloud and identity platforms required
• Ability to work independently, and lead team members, within a globally distributed environment 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
• Technical Requirements: Cloud Computing (GCP, Azure), Forensic tools (FTK, Encase, X-Ways, SIFT), Service Now preferred
• Professional Industry certification preferred

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.