# 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

We are looking for an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer to join EA Security'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.

In addition to running daily anti-cheat operations, you'll perform investigations into suspected cheating activity to confirm or refute reports and improve the quality of our detections.

You'll deep dive into data provided by a variety of tools, and you'll gather and review threat intelligence supporting our anti-cheat and UGX (user-generated experiences & modding) protection pipelines.

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

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Information Security certifications
- Experience building tools that automate tasks
- Experience with reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development

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