Site Reliability Engineer - EA

The EA Security team protects EA by reducing our exposure to security risks by raising awareness and providing a measured, proportionate set of security and risk management controls, services and solutions. This department also ensures that EA is meeting required security standards as defined by a variety of different regulatory bodies.
The Secure Product Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response team ensures that all EA products are developed with the security and gameplay integrity of our players as a top priority. We partner with both platform development teams and game studios to ensure that security and gameplay integrity issues are identified and resolved throughout the application and service lifecycle.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with an interest in security and anti-cheat. As a member of the Anti-Cheat Engineering team, you will report to the Lead Software Engineer. Your core objectives will be to partner with game & platform development teams to deliver a centralized anti-cheat service across the company and to work with engineers in the Anti-Cheat Engineering team to improve and maintain our build pipelines. In this role, you will help solve a critical problem to our players, ensuring they have a fair and level playing field.
Responsibilities:
Deliver and maintain services in a Kubernetes cluster to game teams within EA
Ensure the scalability and availability of EA’s anti-cheat platform
Automate operational tasks, removing human error wherever possible
Define metrics to measure service performance and health, and implement monitoring and alerting solutions
Plan, design, and implement security controls for anti-cheat platform and services in accordance with EA's security policies and procedures
Maintain and improve automated build pipelines
Gather operational requirements and implement improvements to build and test environments

Qualifications:
Solid knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker
Solid knowledge of Windows and Linux
Passion for online gaming and interest in the cheating problem space
Experience working with or familiarity with the external security researching community, game cheat community, and/or identifying and leveraging cheats in games
Experience with Redis or Memcache
Experience with MySQL or similar RDBMS
Experience with Rust, C++ or similar programming language
Understanding of application security concepts

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