Contract Data Analyst - Security/Cyber Intelligence

Requisition Number: 150401

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

EA SPORTS is seeking a Contract Data Analyst (Online Game Security) to own the support of high quality online Madden & NBA Live gameplay experiences by predicting, monitoring, investigating, and reacting to online security issues.  The analyst will play the role of a lead detective through querying game data for exploitive behavior and reacting quickly to real-time events.  We are seeking candidates that are motivated, proactive, detail oriented, and have experience with SQL databases to continue to help us improve gameplay experience for the customers in a fast paced work environment. 

This position will have a major impact on the customers’ online gameplay experiences by maintaining the front line of defense for security-related issues.

 

Responsibilities

• Conduct cyber intelligence operations including intelligence collection (especially indicators of compromise/IOCs), tracking threat actors, identifying and tracking malicious assets and infrastructure
• Respond to research requests from EA internal customers with timely and accurate assessments
• Proactively research relevant threats and produce reports and intelligence products.
• Support prototyping and continuous development/integration of tools to store, exchange, and analyze threat and incident data
• Work closely with customer service, communications, quality assurance, the development team, and game analysts to support and resolve issues
• Identify existing and new online security holes and work closely with security engineers and game analysts to identify potential solutions
• Maintain documentation on security, exploitative behavior, and actions performed
• Prepare weekly reports of security, game metrics, and actions to stakeholders
• Define new data and metrics requirements for engineers and game analysts to implement to further enhance investigative efforts surrounding the general security of our product
• Learn to have a deep understanding of game mechanics and all available game data

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Data science and analytics experience including aggregating, manipulating, examining, mining, exporting, reporting, and visualizing threat intelligence and incident data
• Skills using visualization tools (JavaScript, Graphite, Tableau, R, etc) for creating dashboards to monitor and analyze data
• Familiarity with concepts and technologies related to Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Hadoop and data reduction technologies
• Experience with intelligence analysis, including analytic tradecraft, and demonstrated critical thinking skill
• Firm grasp of link-analysis methods and ability to quickly develop effective solutions to unique problems using a combination of existing tools and custom code/scripts
• Knowledge of and experience with security monitoring methodologies such as patterns, watch lists, black lists, log parsing, correlation, classification, event generation, taxonomy, filtering
• Experience with Linux/Unix and an understanding of database technologies
• Familiarity with and understanding of current hacking techniques, vulnerability disclosures, data breach incidents, and security analysis techniques
• Passion for enhancing and fixing customer online play experiences
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across disciplines (engineering, production, data analyst)
• Willing to occasionally handle urgent issues related to security outside normal work hours
• Intermediate Excel and PowerPoint skills are required

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Community / Marketing Title: Contract Data Analyst - Security/Cyber Intelligence

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter interaktiver Unterhaltungssoftware. EA bietet Spiele, Inhalte und Online-Dienste für internetfähige Spielkonsolen, Personalcomputer, Mobiltelefone und Tablets an.

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Days Open: 84

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA engagiert sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung. Alle Personalentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Ethnie, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, Abstammung, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsidentität oder ausgelebtem Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, genetischer Information, Religion, Behinderung, Krankheit, Schwangerschaft, Familienstand oder Veteranenstatus getroffen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.