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

City:

State:

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

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

EEOText: EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano, o de cualquier otra característica protegida por ley. También consideramos candidatos cualificados con antecedentes penales, de acuerdo a la ley aplicable. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.

Days Open: 84

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.