Red Team Director - EA Security

Multiple Locations: Seattle, WA, USA • Redwood City, CA, USA • Vancouver, BC, Canada • Orlando, FL, USA • Austin, TX, USA

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Requisition Number: 167292

Position Title: Sr Software Engineer II - Security

External Description:

Red Team Director - EA Security

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together accomplished people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow our employees to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers.

EA Security

The EA Security team protects EA by reducing our exposure to security risks by raising awareness and providing a measured, proportionate set of security and risk management controls, services and solutions.

The Red Team Director is a technical leadership role for the team that plays a part in finding the biggest threats to EA's security, making EA a secure place to work for our 20,000+ people across 38+ global sites. In addition to "classic" Red Team activities and pen testing, you will help build an application security program that scales enterprise-wide with a focus on automation and best-practices. We're a Red Team that can find the worst of the worst, knows what's most likely to be attractive to attackers, and we're driven to make things better.

You will report to the Vice President of the Enterprise Security Team and you will have direct access to leaders across the security team, IT, production and the studios. You will help set EA's Enterprise security strategy, and you'll be an ally to all our partners.

Primary Responsibilities

Respond to latest threats such as APT and other forms of targeted attacks, organized crime, and hacktivism.
Conduct attacks on internally or externally hosted applications and infrastructure.
Design scripts, frameworks, tools for automating application security assessments.
Active participation in attack analysis responsibilities as part of security incident response.
Assemble and coordinate with the Incident Response and other teams at EA to resolve security incidents.
Communicate status of missions and Red Team activity to EA Security and studio leadership.
Stay current on attack techniques and understand published and new real-life attack scenarios.
Mentor more junior staff in attack techniques, tool development, and adversarial tactics.
Tailor engagements and discussions for different types of businesses, leaders, and vendors.

Skills

Minimum experience of 8+ years in Security with Red Team management
Be an attractor of and develop remarkable technical talent
Build connections across the business and through these relationships increase EA's defensibility.
Build successful security programs from the ground up
Plan quarterly roadmaps, make hard trade-offs and communicate them well
Build and deploy flexible automation frameworks
Experience in at least 3 of the following (and knowledge of remainder):
Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, BURP, Bloodhound
Web and Database Penetration Testing
Network (protocols, traffic analysis, wireless, etc.);
Operating System security (Linux, Mac, Windows);
Application Analysis (fuzzing, static analysis, app scanning)

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 96

Can this position be remote?: 1

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