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General Information

Locations: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom 
  • Location: Guildford
  • Country: United Kingdom


Role ID
204112
Worker Type
Regular Employee
Studio/Department
Other
Flexible Work Arrangement
Off Site

Description & Requirements

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

We are looking for an Application Security Analyst to help us actively defend EA’s products, data, and players. This remote-friendly role will report to the Senior Manager of the Verification and Pentest (VAP) team within the Secure Product Engineering and Anti-cheat Response (SPEAR) organization. You will work with a diverse set of timezones working most closely with an North American-based counterpart.

 

Responsibilities

  • You will triage and investigate cases reported through our Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) program and partner with developers to guide remediations
  • You will use your application security knowledge to identify proactive monitoring opportunities to detect future abuse across our applications
  • You will investigate daily alerts, search logs for Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and create or enhance detections
  • You will identify systemic vulnerability trends and patterns, and engage EA security teams to prevent these at scale
  • You will correctly rate the security impact of discovered vulnerabilities, articulate remediation steps to product teams, and report impact to leadership
  • You will deliver talks and presentations within EA, including internal conferences

 

Qualifications

  • At least three years hands-on experience of full stack Application Security reviews that span multiple platforms and programming languages
  • Experience discovering and remediating CWE Top 25 and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
  • Experience querying logs and setting up detections through a log aggregation platform, such as Grafana
  • Experience handling coordinated vulnerability disclosure programs
  • Hands-on experience with security assessment tools and understanding of their applicability and limitations in different assessment scenarios
  • Knowledge in multiple of the following domains and expertise in at least one: Networking, OS Internals, Cloud Architecture, Web Frameworks, or Mobile Architecture
  • Knowledge of best practices and common pitfalls in one or more of: cryptography, authentication mechanisms, authorization controls and network configurations
  • Knowledge of multiple of the following exploitation techniques and expertise in at least one: XSS, SQLi, IDOR, MitM, DoS, BOF, or ROP
  • Excellent verbal and written English skills
  • Bachelor’s degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Security, or equivalent industry experience