Senior 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 passionate system security / information security engineer to join our Activision Blizzard King (ABK) Security Engineering team. If you are an avid gamer with a security and systems engineering background, come be a part of our team. The Senior Security Engineer will support ABK Security Eng and other business partner teams to build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding information security systems, infrastructure, and tools. This role reports into the Senior Manager, Engineering 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 critical 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 or engineering.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Participate in the design of information security and operational support systems
• Engineer, implement, configure, manage, and troubleshoot security tools and infrastructure
• Act as an escalation point for security systems and hardware problems
• Develop technical solutions, new security tools/scripts to automate repeatable tasks
• Inform system security architecture and develop detailed cyber security designs
• Identify and define system security requirements
• Prepare and document standard operating procedures and protocols
• Participate in out of hours on-call as required
• Write comprehensive reports including assessment-based findings, outcomes, and propositions for further system security enhancement
• Ability to effect change through a position of inspiration

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Proven work experience as a system engineer or information security engineer
• Detailed technical knowledge of operating systems and database security
• Hands-on experience with log collection, normalizing, and management; security infrastructure and policies; and risk mitigation
• Serve as the technical SME on project work
• Mentor other team members through technical challenges
• Experience with network technologies, security, and monitoring tools
• 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
• Proven experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows and/or UNIX/Linux based environments
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies for foundational security elements including network devices and system-level hardening
• Experience leading technical projects

Extra Points:
• Knowledge of Cloud Services like Google Cloud, AWS, Azure
• Knowledge of containerization software: Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of shell scripting, Python, Perl
• Knowledge of Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) products.
• Knowledge of Devops
• Experience working within Agile frameworks/teams

About King

King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King's games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

A Great Saga Needs 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 cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It's what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we're not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g46j9z-3-140-186-241-42 in your application.