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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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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Days Open: 84

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EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。