Senior Incident Response Architect

Reinsurance Group Of America, Incorporated; United States; Remote; USD 127,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Reinsurance Group Of America, Incorporated (RGA) is seeking a Principle Incident Response Engineer (DFIR) to lead complex cyber investigations, strengthen enterprise resilience, and guide security teams through critical incidents across global environments. The role combines hands-on DFIR expertise with strategic advisory capabilities, stakeholder engagement, and security program leadership.

You will deliver measurable projects and enable global Security Operations with proactive investigations

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) or equivalent experience required.
• 8+ years in incident response or related cybersecurity disciplines - Required.
• Experience leading major cyber incidents including ransomware, BEC, insider threats, cloud compromise, or supply chain attacks - Required.
• Strong digital forensics capability using industry-standard tools - Required.
• Experience with SIEM/EDR and threat intelligence platforms - Required.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise incident response and cyber crisis engagements from detection through recovery.
• Direct host, network, cloud, identity, and SaaS investigations across Windows, Linux, macOS, M365, AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
• Perform advanced threat hunting and compromise assessments using SIEM, EDR, forensic, and threat intel 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 as needed.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted workflows to improve investigation speed and reporting quality.
• Support the 24/7 on-call rotation.

Skills

Incident response

DFIR

Threat hunting

Forensics

Splunk

CrowdStrike

ServiceNow SIR

Cloud security

Executive communication

Scripting

Education

Master’s degree

Tools

FTK

EnCase

X-Ways

SIFT

Job description

Reinsurance Group Of America, Incorporated (RGA) is seeking a Principle Incident Response Engineer (DFIR) to lead complex cyber investigations, strengthen enterprise resilience, and guide security teams through critical incidents across global environments. The role combines hands-on DFIR expertise with strategic advisory capabilities, stakeholder engagement, and security program leadership.

You will deliver measurable projects and enable global Security Operations with proactive investigations