Incident Response Engineer
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Ireland
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Job Level
About the role
- Responsible for supporting existing standards, procedures, and processes that manage, mitigate, and reduce the risk of cyberattacks against RGA.
- Enable global Security Operations by participating in operations, development, and engineering.
- If required, participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, alert triage, investigation
- Support one or more of the following functions: incident response, 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
Requirements
- Associate’s Degree (AA) or equivalent experience required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or professional industry certification preferred
- 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
- 2+ Years of relevant experience preferred
- 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
- 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, 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, SIEM (Splunk), EDR (CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender), Email security, DNS required
- Technical Requirements: Cloud Computing (GCP, Azure), Forensic tools (FTK, Encase, X-Ways, SIFT), Service Now preferred
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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
incident responsesecurity engineeringoffensive securitythreat emulationpenetration testingsecurity operationstelemetry validationcybersecurity metricsautomation workflowsanalytical skills
Soft Skills
strong written communicationstrong verbal communicationability to work independentlyability to adapt quicklyproblem solving skillsgoal settingtime managementteam collaborationability to handle multiple tasksability to balance priorities
Certifications
Associate’s DegreeBachelor’s Degreeprofessional industry certification