Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer in Vancouver

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EA Security protects our players, employees, products, and platforms. We set security standards, support game and enterprise teams, assess risk across partners and systems, and ensure compliance with global requirements. Our work strengthens system integrity, supports fair play, and enables teams to build and operate securely at scale.

The EA Security team protects EA by reducing our exposure to security risks. We raise risk awareness for the entire company and provide measured, proportionate security and risk management controls, services and solutions. Keeping EA safe isn’t a game; join us as we keep the future of play secure for everyone.

Do you dream of a world with no cheaters in games? Do you have experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC)? Do you know the difference between an aimbot and a wall hack? And do you think that all players have the right to a fair and fun gaming experience? If so, this is the job for you!

The Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer I is a member of EA Security's Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team and will report to the manager of the Gameplay Integrity Operations. As an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer I, your primary job will involve monitoring the environment of our games using our internal anti-cheat solution. Your work will help ensure fair and fun experiences for EA's players across all of EA's games.

In addition to running daily anti-cheat operations, you'll perform investigations into suspected cheating activity to confirm or refute reports and improve the quality of our detections. You’ll deep dive into data provided by a variety of tools, and you’ll gather and review threat intelligence supporting our anti-cheat and UGX (user-generated experiences & modding) protection pipelines.

You should have experience working in a Security Operations Center, an understanding of the cheating problem in the gaming industry, and a passion to learn new technologies and challenge assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Monitor anti-cheat operations dashboards
• Investigate suspected cheating activity
• Gather threat intelligence to support anti-cheat and UGX initiatives
• Perform triage and investigations of enforcement appeals
• Collaborate with other engineers to improve detection quality
• Plan work related to anti-cheat operations and investigation tasks
• Clearly communicate task progress and blockers to the team
• Write concise documentation for various anti-cheat operations topics
• Identify needs and improvements to current anti-cheat processes
• Identify needs and lead development of technical skills in the anti-cheat space

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience as a SOC Tier 1 analyst working with SIEM technologies
• Knowledge of the cheating problem in the gaming industry (PC cheats, modding, external cheats, internal cheats, wall hacks, aimbots, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of operating system fundamentals (processes, threads, virtual memory, etc.)
• Ability to engage and articulate complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
• Identify knowledge gaps and seek the right sources to close those gaps
• Safely handle potentially malicious software
• Pick up new technical skills quickly
• Excellent verbal and written English skills

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or relevant industry experience
• Information Security certifications such as CEH, CISSP, GSEC, OSCP, OSCE, or Security+
• Experience building tools that automate tasks
• Experience with reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development

Pay Transparency – North America

British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $86,600 – $118,600 CAD

Compensation And Benefits

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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.

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