Senior Security Engineer, Square Enix
2 days a week in office (Blackfriars, London)
Developing, publishing, and marketing interactive entertainment titles
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Developing, publishing, and marketing interactive entertainment titles
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2 days a week in office (Blackfriars, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To spread happiness across the globe by providing unforgettable experiences.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
SquareEnix was formed as a merger between the two Japanese video game giants Square and Enix in 2003. The company has risen to popularity and is now widely known for its Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Tomb Raider role-playing video game franchises whic has sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide, amongst numerous others.
Its business model is based on the idea of ‘polymorphic content’, consisting of building franchises on multiple potential hardware rather than being restricted by a single gaming platform.
While Square Enix reported a 25% drop in revenue from its games division in Q1 2025, reflecting a broader trend of slower growth driven by a focus on 'safe' releases. However, there is still bright spots - Final Fantasy XI, one of the company's longest-running MMOs, has seen a resurgence in players so strong that new account registration had to be temporarily suspended. With the ongoing support for it's iconic franchises, the company still has potential to turn momentum in its favor.
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Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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