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Senior Detection and Response Engineer | Gaming | Cambridge / Hybrid
We’re partnering with a successful games company in Cambridge looking for a Security Engineer to join their Cyber team.
You will help build out a response function to handle a variety of complex security incidents, drive process improvements, and develop the tools and detection infrastructure needed to scale detection and response across all threats targeting their gaming and studio environments.
What you'll be doing:
* Responding to security events, triage, perform investigation, and incident analysis
* Building and improving processes and technologies used for detection and response
* Automate workflows and improve identification and response time for security events
* Build and optmise detection rules, runbooks and incident playbooks for new and existing detections
* Developing tools and systems to gather security telemetry from cloud production environments
* Leading threat hunting efforts and identifying signals to enhance security controls
* Collaborating cross-functionally with engineering teams to embed security best practices
* Driving continuous process improvement and helping create a culture of learning from incidents
* Participating in an on-call rotation once every 4 weeks to support critical incident response
What we're looking for:
* 6+ years experience in a Security Engineer role, with experience in security monitoring, incident response, and threat hunting in a cloud environment
* Strong background in cloud security, especially AWS services, ECS, and container environments
* Proficiency with scripting or programming for security automation and detection-as-code
* Knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and MITRE ATT&CK principles
* Experience with SIEM and SOAR platforms. Experience with Red Canary or KQL
* 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
* Hands-on experience with data analysis, modeling, and correlation at scale
* Operating systems internals and forensics experience for macOS, Windows & Linux
* 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
* Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
Package and Benefits
* Up to 75K with some flexibility for the right candidate
* Ideally 2 days onsite per week for the first couple of months, moving to 1-2 times per month once fully settled.
* Discretionary annual performance bonus
* Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
* Life Insurance.
* Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
* 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!
* On call rota once every 4 weeks for critical risks. Time off in Lieu given.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Information Technology
* Industries
Computer Games, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting
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