Director, SOC Engineering

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. The Director of SOC Engineering leads the SOC Engineering function with responsibility for the ownership, administration, reliability, and strategic roadmap of enterprise security monitoring, telemetry, detection, and automation services. This role manages a team of engineers responsible for the platforms and capabilities that support security operations, including monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and cyber resilience.   The position will provide strategic and technical leadership for the security monitoring technology stack, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, telemetry pipelines, observability, and automation platforms.  This role is accountable for platform ownership, service reliability, administration, lifecycle management, and roadmap development, ensuring capabilities are scalable, resilient, and aligned to the needs of Security Operations.   The Director drives continuous improvement of telemetry collection, data quality, automation, and platform integrations while establishing engineering standards and operational practices that enhance detection effectiveness, operational efficiency, incident response outcomes, and overall cyber resilience.  Principle Duties Lead the strategy, roadmap, and maturity of SOC Engineering services, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, telemetry pipelines, observability, and automation platforms.  Own the 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 meet established availability, resiliency, scalability, security, and operational support objectives.  Provide strategic and tactical leadership for platform engineering, telemetry services, observability, automation, and detection platform capabilities that support Security Operations.  Establish engineering standards, operational processes, and service management practices necessary for effective and sustainable service delivery.  Drive platform modernization, optimization, and automation initiatives that improve operational efficiency, service quality, visibility, and cyber resilience.  Develop and manage technology roadmaps, budgets, vendor relationships, licensing strategies, and investment priorities aligned to business and security objectives.  Partner with Security Operations and enterprise technology teams to integrate monitoring, telemetry, and observability capabilities across the organization.  Establish service metrics, operational health measures, and performance indicators to drive accountability, continuous improvement, and business value.  Build, develop, and retain a high-performing engineering organization through workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, and a culture of operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.  Provide engineering leadership during major incidents, resiliency exercises, audits, and strategic initiatives while driving long-term corrective actions and platform enhancements.  Perform other duties as assigned.

Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience – Required   Master's Degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS), MBA, or relevant advanced technical or leadership certification – Preferred   Work Experience 10+ years of IT infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity engineering, platform engineering, or related experience required, with significant experience