Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer

We are looking for an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer to join our Security team's Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team.

As an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer, your primary job will involve monitoring the environment of our games using our internal anti-cheat solution. Your work will help ensure fair and fun experiences for EA's players across all of EA's games.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor anti-cheat operations dashboards
• Investigate suspected cheating activity
• Gather threat intelligence to support efforts for anti-cheat and UGX (user-generated content and modding)
• Perform triage and investigations of enforcement appeals
• Collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve the quality of our detections
• Plan work related to anti-cheat operations and investigation tasks
• Clearly communicate task progress and blockers to the team
• Write concise documentation for a variety of topics dealing with anti-cheat operations
• Identify needs and improvements to current processes dealing with anti-cheat operations
• Identify needs and lead the development of your technical skills in the anti-cheat space

Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience as a SOC Tier 1 analyst working with SIEM technologies
• Knowledge of the cheating problem in the gaming industry (PC cheats, modding, external cheats, internal cheats, wall hacks, aimbots, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of operating system fundamentals (processes, threads, virtual memory, etc.)
• Engage and articulate complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
• Identify knowledge gaps and seek the right sources to close those gaps
• Safely handle potentially malicious software
• Pick up new technical skills quickly
• Excellent verbal and written English skills

Additional Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Security or similar, or relevant industry experience
• Information Security certifications such as CEH, CISSP, GSEC, OSCP, OSCE, or Security+
• Experience building tools that automate tasks
• Experience with reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development