Director, SOC Engineering

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🏰 Missouri – Remote

🏰 Missouri – Remote

💵 $126.7k - $188.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🛡️ Security Operations

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Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1973

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🛡️ Insurance

Consulting • Logistics • Insurance

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) is a leading global reinsurance company that focuses exclusively on life and health reinsurance solutions. With a strong commitment to providing innovative products and services, RGA helps its clients manage risk and enhance their insurance portfolios through its expertise in underwriting, claims management, and financial solutions. The company operates in multiple global markets, leveraging its extensive data and analytics capabilities to offer tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of the life and health insurance sectors.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and maturity of SOC Engineering services, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, telemetry pipelines, observability, and automation platforms • Own administration, reliability, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of enterprise security monitoring and telemetry platforms across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments • Ensure platform and service performance meets availability, resiliency, scalability, security, and operational support objectives • Provide strategic and tactical leadership for platform engineering, telemetry services, observability, automation, and detection platform capabilities • Establish engineering standards, operational processes, and service management practices • Drive platform modernization, optimization, and automation initiatives • Develop and manage technology roadmaps, budgets, vendor relationships, licensing strategies, and investment priorities • Partner with Security Operations and enterprise technology teams to integrate monitoring, telemetry, and observability capabilities • Establish service metrics, operational health measures, and performance indicators • Build, develop, and retain a high-performing engineering organization through workforce planning, talent development, and succession planning • Provide engineering leadership during major incidents, resiliency exercises, audits, and strategic initiatives • Drive long-term corrective actions and platform enhancements • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience – Required • 10+ years of IT infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity engineering, platform engineering, or related experience required • Significant experience supporting security monitoring, telemetry, detection engineering, or security platform operations • 2+ years of IT management experience – Required • Demonstrated experience building and executing technology roadmaps, operational maturity programs, and large-scale platform modernization initiatives • Highly advanced people management skills, including leading, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams • Strong understanding of security operations, threat detection, incident response, platform reliability, service management, and operational support models • Technical expertise with SIEM, telemetry, XDR/EDR, SOAR, cloud-native logging technologies, and related telemetry ecosystems – Required • Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to convey technical concepts in business terms • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative leadership environment while managing multiple priorities, services, and strategic initiatives • Advanced customer relationship management, stakeholder engagement, organizational leadership, and change management skills • Master's Degree, MBA, or relevant advanced technical or leadership certification – Preferred • 5+ years of progressive experience leading, designing, delivering, and operating complex cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform engineering, or enterprise technology functions – Preferred • Advanced knowledge of cloud technologies, enterprise infrastructure, identity services, APIs, automation technologies, and modern security architectures – Preferred • Advanced project management skills – Preferred • Experience managing vendor relationships, technology evaluations, contract negotiations, licensing strategies, and strategic platform investments – Preferred • Insurance or financial services industry knowledge – Preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus plan • Long-term equity incentive plan eligibility for some positions • Health benefits • Retirement benefits • Other employee benefits • Diverse, caring colleagues around the world • Respectful, welcoming environment • Career potential and global opportunities