Description
Electronic Arts is seeking an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer to join their Security team. As an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for monitoring the environment of Electronic Arts' games using their internal anti-cheat solution, investigating suspected cheating activity, and gathering threat intelligence to support anti-cheat and user-generated content protection pipelines.
The ideal candidate will have experience working in a Security Operations Center, knowledge of the cheating problem in the gaming industry, and a passion for learning new technologies. You will collaborate with other engineers to improve detection quality, plan and prioritize tasks, and communicate progress and blockers to the team.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor anti-cheat operations dashboards
- Investigate suspected cheating activity
- Gather threat intelligence to support anti-cheat and user-generated content protection pipelines
- Perform triage and investigations of enforcement appeals
- Collaborate with other engineers to improve detection quality
- Plan and prioritize tasks related to anti-cheat operations and investigations
- Communicate task progress and blockers to the team
- Write concise documentation for various anti-cheat operations topics
- Identify needs and improvements to current anti-cheat operations processes
- Develop technical skills in the anti-cheat space
Qualifications:
- 1+ year of experience as a SOC Tier 1 analyst working with SIEM technologies
- Knowledge of the cheating problem in the gaming industry
- Basic knowledge of operating system fundamentals
- Ability to engage and articulate complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
- Identify knowledge gaps and seek resources to close them
- Safely handle potentially malicious software
- Quickly pick up new technical skills
- Excellent verbal and written English skills
Additional Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security, or relevant industry experience
- Information Security certifications such as CEH, CISSP, GSEC, OSCP, OSCE, or Security+
- Experience building automation tools
- Experience with reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development
Salary: $86,600 - $118,600 CAD (for Vancouver location)
Benefits:
- Vacation time (3 weeks per year)
- 10 days per year of sick time
- Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits
- Extended health/dental/vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan