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