Principal Threat Intelligence Engineer

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 500 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 owning, creating, and executing standards, procedures, and processes to educate partners on the threat landscape – this includes providing briefings to leadership and teammates across all levels across the organization along with written communications as necessary.  Provide expertise, education, and leadership for both GSO team members and business team members by applying knowledge of threat intelligence to their relevant areas. Enable global Security Operations by participating in investigations, engaging with stakeholders, and engineering, and delivering measurable, impactful projects.  A successful candidate will show that they can engage with both technical audiences and non-technical audiences as the need arises along with providing expertise in engineering solutions to promote threat intelligence expansion across the security landscape.

Principle Duties

• Responsible for the entire Threat Intelligence Lifecycle (Requirements, Collection, Processing, Analysis, Dissemination, Feedback)

• Lead the development of engineering tasks that improve threat intelligence capabilities

• Perform expert-level threat intelligence analysis

• Responsible for threat intelligence-related audit/compliance/risk-reduction efforts for the team

• Own and deliver threat intelligence tooling procurement, testing, and deployment

• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members

• Develop and report metrics for incidents at an Organizational, Company, and/or Executive level

• Own and deliver team level projects that drive down the overall risk and/or impact of a cybersecurity incident

• Performs other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience - Required

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) - Preferred

Work Experience

• 8+ years of experience in threat intelligence or threat management - Required

• Experience contributing to purple team exercises - Required

• Experience developing and supporting cybersecurity metrics as they relate to threat intelligence - Required

• 10 years of relevant experience - Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Advanced analytics skills with the ability to investigate open source cyber intelligence - 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

• Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects - Required

• Ability to balance detail with departmental goals/objectives - Required

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

• Technical Requirements: Windows, Mac, and Linux internals, Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), M365 Suite and Environments, Microsoft Domain Environments, IAM/AAA technologies and architectures (Active Directory, Okta, OpenID, SAML, Oauth, JWT), Physical and Virtual Networking technologies and architecture, General knowledge of SIEM/SOAR technology (Splunk, CrowdStrike, Sentinel, etc), EDR Platforms (CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, etc) - Required

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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.

Compensation Range:

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.