Principal Security Engineer

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

Activision, the publisher of the hit Call of Duty franchise, is looking for a Principal Security Engineer to join our Activision Blizzard King (ABK) Security Architecture and Engineering team. If you are an avid gamer with a security and systems engineering background, come be a part of our team. The mission of the Principal Security Engineer is to act as a technical leader in the Security Architecture and Engineering organization. They lead by guiding, mentoring, and working with teams throughout the company. They help enable teams through: technology integrations, and workflow automations across physical, virtual and cloud computing, pushing process improvements, influencing organization priorities, and tackling special projects.

This role reports into the Senior Director, Security Engineering Operations and maintains strong relationships with all line-of-business technology groups. You will work closely with several key individuals and teams and will be part of a dedicated team of security engineers and architects who demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering critically important infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security across our enterprise. Qualified candidates will have a background in IT, computer, security systems analysis and engineering.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Providing leadership and influence across Security and IT programmers
• Identify gaps in our current processes, workflows and design solutions; and recommend changes or enhancements as needed to improve efficiency through automation and scalability
• Stay in sync with Security Engineering and Architecture teams to help the organization deliver its goals
• Work with other teams to drive new projects, product implementations configuration reviews, ensuring that best practice standards are maintained
• Function as a Security SME across the Security organization and company wide

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Proven work experience as a system engineer, information security engineer, or information security architect
• Display technical excellence in Cloud Native technologies as well as multidisciplinary capabilities in coding, and networking
• Be able to map technical controls to the risk they solve and help create business justification for the necessary technical solutions
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript or other modern languages, and the ability to understand and modify code written by others.
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud Platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, Azure
• Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols
• Ability to problem solve independently and collaborate as a team to solve complex problems in support of the team's mission
• Can communicate to senior leaders, provide recommendations, and excels at gaining multi-team alignment
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies for foundational security elements including network devices and system-level hardening
• Hands-on experience in gitOps frameworks using tools like ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub, etc; and infrastructure as code such as Terraform
• Knowledge of containerization software: Docker, Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Agile (Scrum or Kanban) and how it's demonstrated for both project and operational work

Extra Points:
• Excellent knowledge of cloud security standard methodologies and solutions in cloud security posture management and cloud security workload management.
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management frameworks in cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with serverless functions
• Hands-on experience with log collection, normalizing, and management; security infrastructure and policies; and risk mitigation
• Knowledge about the current security threat landscape and common tactics, techniques and procedures used in offensive security
• Knowledge of Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) products.
• Knowledge of operating systems and database security

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r79e3p-3-145-36-10-42 in your application.