Corporate IT Security Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Jam City, a leading mobile games developer, is seeking an innovative and dynamic IT Security Engineer to join their growing technology team. This role focuses on strengthening the company's security posture through proactive improvements and responsive actions. As a Security Generalist, you will monitor security systems, analyze events, investigate incidents, and implement and maintain security tools, including a future SIEM. Key responsibilities include leading incident investigations across SaaS and cloud platforms, designing and implementing automated security workflows, developing detection rules, maintaining user access reviews, performing vulnerability scans and remediations, and conducting red teaming exercises. You will also configure security controls, collaborate with engineering teams on secure secrets management, and monitor alerts from various security systems. This hands-on role requires a strong understanding of security controls, threat response, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to protect company assets and support compliance.
Must have:
- Lead incident investigations across SaaS and Cloud platforms
- Design and implement automated security workflows
- Design, implement, and deploy SIEM tooling
- Maintain and execute User Access Reviews
- Perform red teaming exercises and penetration testing
- Configure and optimize security controls
- Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering
- Monitor and triage security alerts
- Participate in security awareness programs
- Assist with compliance audits and security documentation
- Deep understanding of authentication protocols
- Experience with SIEM platforms and detection engineering
- Strong automation experience with Okta Workflows, scripting, and APIs
- Familiarity with endpoint protection and DLP tools
- Ability to perform and lead internal red team assessments
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and secure development
- Strong documentation and collaboration skills
Good to have:
- Terraform (optional)
Perks:
- Unlimited Vacation
- Paid Sick Days & Holidays
- 100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
- Life Insurance
- 401k
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Benefits
- Catered Lunches
- Well-stocked Kitchens
- Yoga & Wellness Activities
- Happy Hours
- Company Events
- Dog Friendly
14 skills required
Job Details
As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re searching for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
PERKS & BENEFITS
Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
Yoga & Wellness Activities
Happy Hours
Company Events
Dog Friendly
Jam City IT focuses on providing world class end-user support and empowering employees with best-in-class technical resources. Our technology team is growing at Jam City and we are looking to add an IT Security Engineer to the organization. This hands-on role will support and strengthen our security posture through both proactive improvements and responsive actions. As a Security Generalist, you will monitor security systems, analyze events and logs, investigate and take necessary actions to resolve incidents. Furthermore you will implement and maintain security tools, automations, and infrastructure—including our future SIEM. You will lead operational security tasks such as vulnerability remediation, user access reviews, and code scan follow-ups.
As a SME combines deep technical engineering expertise with day-to-day operational responsibility across Jam City's security controls, you will serve as both the builder and executor of security solutions.
Reporting to the VP of IT (Data Protection Officer), you’ll work cross-functionally to protect company assets, infrastructure, and applications from cyber threats while supporting compliance and security best practices across the organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead incident investigations across SaaS platforms including Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Box as well as Cloud Computing & Infrastructure platforms such as GCP and AWS.
- Design and implement automated security workflows in Okta (e.g., contextual access, dynamic MFA, threat response automation).
- Design, implement and deploy SIEM tooling and develop detection rules/playbooks.
- Maintain and execute User Access Reviews (UARs), vulnerability scans & remediations, and threat response.
- Perform red teaming exercises and annual penetration testing campaigns.
- Configure, test, and optimize endpoint, browser, and SaaS security controls.
- Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering to ensure secrets and API keys are securely managed.
- Monitor and triage alerts from EDR, DLP, and code scanning systems.
- Participate in security awareness programs and phishing simulations.
- Assist with compliance audits and security documentation including Business Continuity, DR/backup policies.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Deep understanding of authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth, Kerberos).
- Experience with SIEM platforms and detection engineering (rule creation, log correlation).
- Strong automation experience with Okta Workflows, scripting (Python/Bash), and APIs.
- Familiarity with endpoint protection, browser session security, and DLP tools.
- Ability to perform and lead internal red team assessments and penetration testing.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and secure development knowledge (secrets management, hardcoded credential detection etc..).
- Strong documentation and cross-team collaboration skills.
TOOLS / ENVIRONMENTS
- Okta, Google Workspace Admin, GitHub Security, CrowdStrike, Nessus/Tenable, AWS/GCP IAM, AWS Security Tools (Guard Duty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, CloudWatch), GCP SCC
- Scripting languages (Python, Bash), Terraform (optional), Okta Workflows/Workforce Identity Cloud.
- Jira, Confluence, Google Drive for documentation.
CHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION
We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more.
Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.
ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.
Led by CEO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.
The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.
Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.
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