The Staff SOC Engineer - Security Telemetry & Detection Platforms is a hands-on security engineering role responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving enterprise security telemetry and detection platforms. This role ensures high-quality visibility and detection are embedded throughout operations and delivery lifecycles - applying secure by design principles to data collection, transformation, storage, and alerting across hybrid, cloud native, and on premises environments. The Staff SOC Engineer proactively anticipates telemetry gaps, translates detection requirements into actionable engineering work, and operationalizes controls that are scalable, resilient, and measurable. Through close collaboration with security operations, architecture, infrastructure, and product teams, this role advances SOC maturity and enables adaptive defenses that support business growth and regulatory compliance.

Principle Duties

• Administer and engineer improvements to enterprise security telemetry and detection platforms- including SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and data pipeline solutions - ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Implement secure by default telemetry patterns and logging standards across operating systems, cloud, and network data sources.
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines (Routes, Pipelines, Packs) for secure, cost managed, and high throughput log routing, enrichment, filtering, and transformation into SIEM, archive, and other destinations.
• Engineer SIEM content (SPL searches, correlation rules, alerts, dashboards, data models, CIM mapping, RBA where applicable) with an emphasis on signal quality, performance, and SLO/KPI driven cost control
• Define and maintain role-based access controls (RBAC), least privilege models, and user provisioning across telemetry and detection platforms to enable auditable operations.
• Contribute to integration and automation across SOC tooling and enterprise systems (e.g., Tines, cloud native logging in AWS/Azure/GCP, threat intel feeds, ticketing/ITSM) to streamline detection, enrichment, and response workflows.
• Author and maintain explicit documentation - including system design documents, reference implementations, runbooks, and technical decision records capturing rationale, architecture, and operational procedures.
• Apply tacit understanding of SIEM/EDR behavior, data schemas, and pipeline constraints to troubleshoot complex issues, reduce noise, and close visibility gaps.
• Participate in incident response by developing targeted searches, conducting log analysis, identifying root causes, and providing platform/tooling expertise during high severity events.
• Implement and continuously improve control validation (data quality checks, parsing/field extraction tests, content regression tests) and observability (health monitors, capacity, latency, backlog, and error metrics).
• Evaluate emerging telemetry sources, detection approaches, and vendor capabilities; build proofs of concept to assess fit, security posture, and operational impact.
• Support identity, access, and privilege strategies within SOC platforms (API tokens, service accounts, secrets management, SSO/SAML/OIDC) aligned to enterprise guardrails.
• Collaborate in post incident reviews and resilience improvements, translating findings into backlog items for pipeline hardening, new log sources, or content tuning.
• Contribute to responsible logging and monitoring for AI enabled applications and platforms (e.g., model/service telemetry, prompt/audit logs), integrating risks and controls into detection strategy.
• Serve as the security telemetry and detection engineering representative for Global Security Office in technical forums, ensuring platform considerations are aligned with enterprise strategies and governance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in arts/sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience – Required
• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) or professional industry certification Preferred

Work Experience:

• 6+ years of progressive experience in security/infrastructure engineering or SOC engineering focused on SIEM/EDR, telemetry pipelines, and detection content
• Demonstrated success deploying and operating SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and data pipeline solutions at enterprise scale, including RBAC, API integrations, and platform hygiene
• Handson experience engineering data ingestion pipelines and normalizing logs from operating systems, AWS, Azure, and network sources
• Strong technical background and tacit understanding of detection engineering, OCSF modeling, SPL optimization, CIM mapping, and content tuning to reduce ingest volume and improve signal to noise

Licenses & Certifications:

• Relevant platform certifications (e.g., Splunk Core/Cloud, Cribl Certified Observability Engineer, CrowdStrike CCFA/CCFR) Preferred
• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, GSEC, GCDA, Cloud+) Preferred

Skills & Abilities

• Proven ability to collaborate across security operations, architecture, infrastructure, and product teams; strong stakeholder communication and documentation skills Required
• Ability to map and document complex systems and processes, including data lineage and schema/field mappings Required
• Familiarity with NIST frameworks, MITRE ATT&CK, and secure by design practices; experience with control validation and metrics/KPIs for continuous improvement Required
• Experience supporting 24/7 SOC operations, including on call participation and multi region ingestion scenarios Required
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills; competency with analysis and diagramming tools (e.g., Lucidcharts, Visio, Excel) Required
• Experience integrating security telemetry into CI/CD pipelines and applying version control, testing, and staged releases for detections and pipeline changes Preferred
• Proficiency in automation and scripting (e.g., Python, PowerShell) and experience with SOAR (e.g., Tines) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) - Preferred

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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.