Expert Cloud Security Engineer - Activision

About the position

Activision, the publisher of the hit Call of Duty franchise, is looking for a passionate Sr. Cloud Security Engineer to join our Cloud Security function, supporting Activision, Blizzard, King, and Microsoft Gaming partners. We are looking for this role to be based out of our King office in Barcelona, Spain. Are you highly interested in Cyber security and raising the security bar? Do you enjoy working across the company on unique solutions for a variety of areas related to Gaming? Does working with Security Analysts, Developers, and Program Management across a variety of areas excite you? If so, the Gaming Security team would like to talk to you. Our team supports the services, platform, and studios that make up the Gaming business. In addition, we work with other Security teams within the company to ensure that we have the right tools and services to protect these key businesses. We are looking for a Gaming Senior Cloud Security Engineer to help us engineer and deliver solutions that help secure our business by partnering and engaging with engineering teams to improve our security posture. The successful candidate will have passion for security, committed collaboration skills, technical depth, coupled with the ability to bring others together in developing common solutions. Effective communication skills and the ability to thrive in an ambiguous and dynamic environment are necessary. Candidate should represent the growth mindset and display Activision Blizzard’s cultural values in day-to-day activities. Our Cloud Security team represents Activision Blizzard, along with Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate cloud security guardrails and validation processes to ensure resilient, scalable, and secure cloud architectures for Gaming businesses.
• Deliver and support high-quality distributed services and infrastructures to enhance security for our Gaming businesses.
• Partner with Activision, Blizzard, King, Microsoft Gaming, and Microsoft Security, and other stakeholders to ensure ongoing alignment, manage dependencies, and achieve shared objectives.
• Support and enhance our Cloud Security program through automation, tooling, systems, and controls in partnership with Gaming Security and other partners.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, and emerging trends, applying this knowledge to our products and services.
• Perform hands-on configuration activities in areas such as Identity & Access Management, Threat Detection, and Incident Response.
• Implement process improvements and identify gaps in workflows, designing solutions to enhance efficiency through automation and scalability.
• Provide technical Cloud Security Architecture guidance to studios and business teams.

Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in cybersecurity with expertise in automation, including building cloud security solutions, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), information technology (IT), and operations incident response.
• OR bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with Azure.
• Experience deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in public cloud environments.
• Experience with one or more languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, YAML, JSON).
• Experience in creating and maintaining technical documentation.
• Experience working alongside technical project management, following project management methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• CISSP CISA CISM SANS GCIA GCIH OSCP Security+ Master's Degree or Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
• OR 7+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience with Azure.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with Cloud Native Security Tools or CNAPP platforms.
• Experience with deploying cloud security guardrails and controls.
• Experience with Agile workflows.
• Understanding of the Software development ecosystem; from inception to delivery.
• Certification as a Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, along with one or more of the following: Microsoft Azure Security Engineer or AWS Certified Security Specialty.
• Proven track record of improving reliability, availability, and performance of cloud services.
• Experience developing and maintaining large scale distributed systems.
• Experience coaching and mentoring others.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
• Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job.