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Principal Security Engineer
1 year ago
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Principal Security EngineerRequisition ID:
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Your Platform
Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.
Your Mission
Activision, the publisher of the hit Call of Duty franchise, is looking for a Principal Security Engineer to join our Activision Blizzard King (ABK) Security Architecture and Engineering team. If you are an avid gamer with a security and systems engineering background, come be a part of our team. The mission of the Principal Security Engineer is to act as a technical leader in the Security Architecture and Engineering organization. They lead by guiding, mentoring, and working with teams throughout the company. They help enable teams through: technology integrations, and workflow automations across physical, virtual and cloud computing, pushing process improvements, influencing organization priorities, and tackling special projects.
This role reports into the Senior Director, Security Engineering Operations and maintains strong relationships with all line-of-business technology groups. You will work closely with several key individuals and teams and will be part of a dedicated team of security engineers and architects who demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering critically important infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security across our enterprise. Qualified candidates will have a background in IT, computer, security systems analysis and engineering.
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
- Providing leadership and influence across Security and IT programmers
- Identify gaps in our current processes, workflows and design solutions; and recommend changes or enhancements as needed to improve efficiency through automation and scalability
- Stay in sync with Security Engineering and Architecture teams to help the organization deliver its goals
- Work with other teams to drive new projects, product implementations configuration reviews, ensuring that best practice standards are maintained
- Function as a Security SME across the Security organization and company wide
Player Profile
Minimum Requirements:
- Proven work experience as a system engineer, information security engineer, or information security architect
- Display technical excellence in Cloud Native technologies as well as multidisciplinary capabilities in coding, and networking
- Be able to map technical controls to the risk they solve and help create business justification for the necessary technical solutions
- Proficiency in Python, JavaScript or other modern languages, and the ability to understand and modify code written by others.
- Excellent knowledge of Cloud Platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, Azure
- Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols
- Ability to problem solve independently and collaborate as a team to solve complex problems in support of the team’s mission
- Can communicate to senior leaders, provide recommendations, and excels at gaining multi-team alignment
- Knowledge of industry standard methodologies for foundational security elements including network devices and system-level hardening
- Hands-on experience in gitOps frameworks using tools like ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub, etc; and infrastructure as code such as Terraform
- Knowledge of containerization software: Docker, Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Agile (Scrum or Kanban) and how it’s demonstrated for both project and operational work
Extra Points:
- Excellent knowledge of cloud security standard methodologies and solutions in cloud security posture management and cloud security workload management.
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management frameworks in cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with serverless functions
- Hands-on experience with log collection, normalizing, and management; security infrastructure and policies; and risk mitigation
- Knowledge about the current security threat landscape and common tactics, techniques and procedures used in offensive security
- Knowledge of Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) products.
- Knowledge of operating systems and database security
Our World
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!
Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!
The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
Activision Blizzard is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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