About the role

  • Lead Game Security Engineer overseeing team to ensure robust game security measures across Asura titles. Responsible for developing anti-cheat and DRM solutions within an innovative gaming environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage a team of developers and analysts to develop and maintain software to defend against cheating, piracy and other threats.
  • Develop and own process framework which encompasses the whole lifecycle of managing security threats from monitoring, investigation and identification through to successful mitigation.
  • Develop in-house capability for the utilisation of reverse engineering and other techniques to analyse and report on malicious code.
  • Work with broader code teams to establish a development environment in which security best practices are embedded.
  • Supporting the QA department in building the capability to validate and safely release defensive software.

Requirements

  • Extensive track record of safely and successfully delivering anti-cheat and DRM functionality for C++ software in a senior or leadership role
  • Strong expertise in implementing anti-cheat techniques and digital rights management technologies and the ability to further develop that expertise in team members.
  • Demonstrable background and experience in reverse engineering and analysing game cheats, digital rights management circumvention and other similar abuse vectors
  • Deep understanding of relevant technical tools and standards (for instance PE and ELF file formats and software such as IDA Pro or Ghidra)
  • **Nice to have:**
  • Experience shipping or operating online/multiplayer/live-service games at scale.
  • Knowledge of cryptography and network protocols, plus tools such as OpenSSL and Wireshark.
  • Published security research, responsible disclosure, or public white-hat work.
  • Familiarity with the Windows Resiliency Initiative.

Benefits

  • **We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including: **
  • 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
  • Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
  • Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
  • Enhanced Family Leave
  • Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
  • Enhanced Pension Scheme
  • EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
  • Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Job title

Lead Game Security Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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