Senior Security Engineer

Job Summary:

The Senior Security Engineer plays a pivotal role in strengthening our security posture across our corporate infrastructure and online platforms. Collaborating with security colleagues and wider IT and Digital teams you’ll provide expertise and practical support to implement effective and optimised security controls.

Your responsibilities will balance driving proactive security improvements to our preventative controls, managing and optimising our SIEM platform and supporting security architecture reviews. Your role will also include opportunity to influence how we secure our games and back-end infrastructure.

The role offers the opportunity to further develop a career in Cyber Security in an exciting, fast-moving industry.

Key Deliverables:

SIEM Management and Optimisation

• Lead the management, administration and support of our SIEM platform and incident response environment, including general infrastructure and system administration.
• On-board, maintain and manage security log sources for our SIEM platform, including agent and policy deployment and creating ingest pipelines.
• Collaborate with security analysts to improve effectiveness of threat detection through creation and tuning of detection rules.

Proactive Security Engineering

• Design, implement and optimise preventative security controls, working in partnership with our risk analysts to prioritise areas of focus.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, supporting the design and implementation of controls into key business and technology driven projects.
• Evaluate new security tools and technologies, including AI driven solutions, and recommend strategic security improvements.
• Support the design of security controls into our games and back end infrastructure.
• Explore and experiment with automation and AI to optimise our processes and enhance our preventative and detective capabilities.

Collaboration and Mentoring

• Collaborate across our IT and Digital teams to provide security expertise, advice and hands on support to improve security across both our enterprise and online platforms.
• Provide guidance and technical support to all security team members, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and curiosity.

Indicative Performance Measures

• High availability of security platforms
• Cost effectiveness of security platforms
• Time to complete security enhancements
• Efficacy of Cyber Security team processes
• Customer satisfaction / usability (Security didn’t make things harder or less usable)
• # of Critical or High-risk security vulnerabilities found in penetration tests.

Knowledge & Experience:

Technical Skills

• Experience in a hands-on SIEM/SOC Engineering or Security Engineering role or have gained similar experience through other adjacent roles.
• Capabilities working with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) or Security Analytics platforms. Specific experience with Elastic Security is highly desirable.
• Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Purview, M365 E5 and Entra Suite experience.
• Competency working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar Cloud infrastructure platforms and cloud security knowledge.
• Comfortable with scripting and programming languages, for example Python, Javascript, Bash, Powershell.
• Use of DevOps tooling, for example GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Docker/K8s.
• Understanding of common security frameworks, for example SABSA and NIST CSF.
• Willingness to learning and understanding new technologies quickly.
• Ability to converse effectively across technology domains to include identity and access management, network security, infrastructure, databases, cryptography and virtualisation.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in simple diagrams, blueprints and solution definitions.

Interpersonal Skills/Other

• Proactive and autonomous – identifying where to focus effort.
• Clear and influential communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Effective working within distributed global teams.
• Ability to create detailed and well-organised documentation.
• Focus on customer satisfaction.
• Focus on business outcomes and a positive delivery attitude.
• Some international travel may be required

Motivation and Interests

• An interest in emerging technologies or technical innovations.
• A focus on self-development and career progression.
• An interest in the gaming industry is a plus

Our goal at Square Enix is to hire, retain, develop and promote the best talent, regardless of age, gender, race, religious, belief, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Our pledge to D&I

At Square Enix we believe in the importance of being a diverse and global company, and we stand firmly together against any forms of injustice, intolerance, harassment or discrimination. In our effort to create a truly diverse workforce, we pledge to continue to raise awareness in every step of the employee experience, from recruitment to promotions to ensure equal opportunities for all. One of our goals is to champion diversity in games and at work and work together to inspire real change.

Learning and education around D&I will be a key element for us to continue to grow as an organization. With unconscious bias training, D&I workshops and a variety of initiatives to give our employees the opportunity to be heard and be part of that change to achieve real equality. We need all our efforts to continue to build our culture of inclusion and equality.

We are also proud to partner with UKIE's Raise the Game pledge, BAME in Games and Women in Games, to name a few.

Hybrid Working Policy

Square Enix is pleased to be an employer that offers flexibility within the workplace.

We have a hybrid working policy which allows employees to work from the comfort of their home, three days per week, and in our amazing Blackfriars office for the other two.

Or, if being in the Office is your preference, you can choose three days working from our office and two days working from home. The choice is yours!