This role reports into the Vice President of the Enterprise Security Team and you will have direct access to leaders across the security team, IT, production and the studios. You will play a key role in setting EA’s Enterprise security strategy, and you’ll be an ally to all our partners. And this includes collaborative work across the gaming industry in a common effort to let gaming companies focus on building amazing games, while keeping the bad actors at bay.
The Head of the Red Team will work with many teams across EA, but will partner extensively with our vulnerability management leaders, incident response, threat hunters, and security operations team.
Primary Responsibilities
Respond to emerging threats such as APT and other forms of targeted attacks, organised crime, etc.
Plan and conduct attacks on internally or externally hosted applications and infrastructure on a global scale with an emphasis on critical functions targeted by adversaries.
Design and develop scripts, frameworks, tools and the methods required for facilitating and executing application security assessments
Active participation in attack analysis duties as part of security incident response. This allows this team to remain abreast of the latest adversary TTPs.
Assemble and coordinate with the IR Ops and other teams at EA to resolve security incidents as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Communicate status of missions and Red Team activities to EA Security leadership and studio leadership.
Ensure effective knowledge management of findings and review results of any attack campaign in order to determine severity of findings and identify potential remediation or mitigation strategies.
Staying current on attack techniques and understands published and emerging real-life attack scenarios.
Mentor and train more junior staff in attack techniques, tool/exploit development, intelligence analysis and adversarial tactics.
Communicate effectively with representatives of the Lines of Business, technology specialists, and vendors.
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
Be an amazing leader and attractor of high-caliber technical talent
A proven ability to build relationships across the business and drive change through these relationships
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to tailor engagements for different types of businesses, leaders.
Build and deliver successful security programs from the ground up
Plan quarterly roadmaps, make hard trade-offs and communicate them well, manage work, build up and out reporting and business rhythm
Building and deploying flexible automation frameworks
Strong experience/knowledge in at least 3 of the following (and knowledge of remainder):
Technical understanding of tools similar to Cobalt Strike, BURP, Bloodhound
Web Penetration Testing (injection, XSS, validation, session mgmt, web services etc.
Database (Oracle, MSSQL, and MySQL: hosting, configuration, etc.);
Network (protocols, traffic analysis, wireless, etc.);
Operating System (UNIX, Solaris, Linux, Mac, Windows: configuration, file system, etc.);
Development (coding, scripting, SQL, computer architecture, exploit writing, code analysis);
Application Analysis (fuzzing, reverse engineering, disassembling (IDA, OllyDbg);
Crypto (password cracking, encryption, algorithm analysis).
About Electronic Arts
We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.
We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
