Game Security Data Analyst

3 Months ago • All levels • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

2K is seeking a Game Security Data Analyst to join their growing security team. The role involves analyzing cheat tools, reviewing game and anti-cheat telemetry to maintain fair and inclusive games. Responsibilities include analyzing cheats, automating telemetry-based systems, investigating exploitative behaviors, and creating reports and dashboards. The candidate will collaborate with game and analytic teams. They need strong analytical skills, communication skills, and experience with SQL, data transformation, and BI tools.
Must have:
  • Advanced SQL skills
  • Pipeline and database automation
  • Build alerts based on telemetry data
  • Deep understanding of data transformation, enrichment
  • Build dashboards in BI tools
  • Data labelling
  • Appeal review to fine-tune ML models
  • Analytical thinking to find patterns in telemetry data
  • Communicate complex topics in a clear and concise manner
Good to have:
  • Technical familiarity with tools to cheat, manipulate, or analyze network traffic
  • NBA 2K game master
  • Understanding of Windows binaries and processes

Job Details

#LI-Hybrid

Game Security Data Analyst

Prague or Brno, Czech Republic

Fixed Term Contract - 3 years

 Who We Are:

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building, and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, 2K PGA, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Quarry, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

The IT and Security teams build, monitor and maintain their corporate and production infrastructure that their fans need to play their games. They are experts in systems, networks, cloud technology and security. Their teams maintain the enterprise and development technology stacks that run their company and support their gamers. The IT and Security teams operate globally to ensure a consistent and exceptional experience for the entirety of the 2K ecosystem.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions, even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!

 

What We Need:

2K is looking for an enthusiastic, talented and personable Game Security Data Analyst who enjoys a collaborative and creative work environment and is looking to push the boundaries of our Anti-Cheat, Anti-Piracy and Anti-Toxicity efforts to join our globally growing security team.

Reporting to the Director of Game Security, the successful candidate will be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, communicate with our game studios as well as security vendors.

You will help us keep our games fair and inclusive by analyzing cheat tools and review game and anti-cheat telemetry. As a passionate gamer you care about the gaming community and ensure that players have the best experience possible.

Equally important to technical skills is the collaboration with game teams and analytic teams across the label.

 

Your profile and expertise

  • Advanced SQL skills
  • Pipeline and database automation
  • Build alerts based on telemetry data
  • Deep understanding of data transformation, enrichment
  • Build dashboards in BI tools
  • Data labelling
  • Appeal review to fine-tune ML models

 

What you will do

  • Analyze cheats and game exploits
  • Automate our telemetry-based system
  • Investigations and execution of interventions to combat exploitive behaviors
  • Threat hunting and helping create, review and action alerts
  • Create scripts to enrich telemetry data with third party APIs
  • Aggregate data for meaningful reports and dashboards

 

What Will Make You A Great Fit:

  • Analytical thinking to find patterns in telemetry data
  • Able to work well with data analyst and software development teams
  • Understanding of Lamda services, PostgreSQL databases / Aurora and Snowflake
  • Excellent and professional communication skills in English (written and verbal) with an ability to articulate complex topics in a clear and concise manner

 

Nice To Have:

  • Technical familiarity with tools used to: cheat, manipulate the memory of a Windows application, or analyze network traffic
  • NBA 2K and / or other competitive live service title game master
  • Understanding of Windows binaries and processes

 

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

 

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.

 

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