Senior Detection and Response Engineer, Jagex
Offers a discretionary annual performance bonus
1+ day a week in office
Video game studio
Open for applications
Video game studio
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Offers a discretionary annual performance bonus
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make forever games that connect and inspire players all around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of full-time experience as a security engineer, including security monitoring, incident response, and threat hunting in a cloud environment
- A defensive practitioner who understands offensive security and, the actual scenarios that lead to compromise
- Prior experience leading complex investigations with a large number of stakeholders
- Strong communication skills and a proven track record of communicating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
- Expertise on AWS security controls and services
- Experience leveraging coding for automation, alert enrichment and detections
- Knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and MITRE ATT&CK principles
- Hands-on experience with data analysis, modeling, and correlation at scale
- Operating systems internals and forensics experience for macOS, Windows & Linux
- Domain experience managing and working with current SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Experience developing tools and automation using common DevOps toolsets and programming languages
- Understanding of malware functionality and persistence mechanisms
- Ability to analyze endpoint, network, and application logs for anomalous events
- A solid understanding of cloud environments and operations
- Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
- An ability to lead projects with little guidance
- Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer to join our Cyber team. You will help us build out a world class incident response function that will navigate challenging security incidents, drive process improvement, develop an open culture where we grow from our mistakes as an organization. In this role, you will also build the tools and detection infrastructure that we need to scale our detection and response capability across all threats to our Studio and gaming environments
- Please note that this position will require participation in an on-call rotation, and is a hybrid role-
- Respond to security events, triage, perform investigations, incident analysis, and communicate clearly and efficiently to stakeholders
- Contribute to improving processes, procedures, and technologies used for detection and response, enabling us to improve after each incident
- Develop and run tools to gather security telemetry data from cloud production systems
- Automate workflows and improve identification and response time for security events
- Build and optimize detection rules, allowing us to spend our cycles on the alerts that matter
- Develop runbooks and incident playbooks for new and existing detections
- Lead Threat hunting practices, suggest product and infrastructure signals to surface attacks and incorporate findings into security controls
- Create and optimize detections, playbooks, and workflows to quickly identify and respond to potential incidents
- Work cross functionally with other engineering teams
Our take
Founded in 2000, Jagex is the video game studio behind the RuneScape titles. It is one of the largest British video game studios, having ammased 2.4 million active subscribers, one million free-to-play users, and over 300 million lifetime RuneScape accounts.
Jagex specialises in "forever games", in which players can continue to discover new experiences and challenges without ever reaching an end. RuneScape is a perfect example of this approach, still receiving updates over twenty years after its initial release.
On top of the RuneScape franchise, the company's acquisition of Gamepires brought titles such as SCUM under the company's banner, which it is also working to make into a forever game. It also acquired Pipeworks - adding a Games-as-a-Service platform to its broadening portfolio.
In 2024, it was announced that Jagex would be bought by CVC Capital Partners and Haveli Investments. This represents a move that will position it well to pursue creating more new and innovative player experiences in the future.
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Company benefits
- Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
- £75 Monthly Energy Allowance (paid on top of your salary)
- Generous Pension Contributions
- Free Gym Membership
- Employee Assistance Programme & Onsite Counselling
- Life Insurance X4 your Salary
- Income Protection 75% Salary
- Annual performance bonus & Pay Reviews
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity - from day 1
- 25 days annual leave +Bank holidays (Increasing by 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)
- Flexible Working Hours
- Flash Bonuses
Company HQ
Milton, UK
Leadership
Phil Mansell
(CEO)Has worked at Jagex since 2011, beginning as Lead Designer then transitioning through roles to become VP of Studios then CEO. Also former Board Member for Ukie and Lead Designer at Climax and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
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