# Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts seeks an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer to join its Security team's Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team. The successful candidate will monitor game environments using an internal anti-cheat solution, investigate suspected cheating, and analyze data to improve detection quality.

Responsibilities:

- Monitor anti-cheat operations dashboards

- Investigate suspected cheating activity

- Gather threat intelligence for anti-cheat and user-generated content protection

- Perform triage and investigations of enforcement appeals

- Collaborate with engineers to improve detection quality

- Plan and prioritize anti-cheat operations and investigation tasks

- Communicate task progress and blockers to the team

- Write concise documentation on anti-cheat operations

- Identify process improvements for anti-cheat operations

- Develop technical skills in the anti-cheat space

Qualifications:

- 1+ year of experience as a SOC Tier 1 analyst with SIEM technologies

- Knowledge of the gaming industry's cheating problem

- Basic understanding of operating system fundamentals

- Ability to articulate complex technical topics to various audiences

- Identify knowledge gaps and seek resources to close them

- Handle potentially malicious software safely

- Quickly acquire new technical skills

- Excellent verbal and written English skills

Additional Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

- Information Security certifications (e.g., CEH, CISSP, GSEC)

- Experience building automation tools

- Reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development experience

## Skills

### Required
- SIEM technologies
- operating system fundamentals
- threat intelligence
- anti-cheat operations
- English language

### Nice to have
- Information Security certifications
- automation tools
- reverse engineering
- anti-cheat/anti-malware development

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