Detection Engineer — AI-Driven Security & Automation (Hybrid)

Electronic Arts; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Electronic Arts in Guildford, UK is seeking a Security Detections Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve detection and response capabilities across EA’s global environment. You will own the end-to-end detection lifecycle, from threat-informed use case design to validation and tuning, while developing automation to reduce toil and increase speed.

You will collaborate with SOC and Security Engineering to deliver scalable content, enrichment, correlation, and noise reduction, and

Qualifications

• Experience in security detection engineering in an enterprise environment.
• Proficiency in automation development with Python.
• Experience building detection logic using endpoint and/or cloud telemetry.
• Ability to design validation approaches and measure detection performance.
• Experience with security automation (SOAR).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve EA's detection and response capabilities across our global environment.
• Own the end-to-end detection lifecycle—from threat-informed use case design through validation, tuning, and operational handoff.
• Develop automation that reduces engineering toil and increases speed and consistency in mitigating risks.
• Collaborate with Security Operations (SOC) to produce meaningful alerts and with Security Engineering to evolve automation platforms and integrations.
• Contribute to EA's AI-assisted detection roadmap with governance, auditability and safety.

Skills

Automation development

Python

APIs

REST

Auth patterns

Secrets handling

Endpoint telemetry

Cloud telemetry

SOAR

Threat intelligence

ML/LLM in security

Tools

SOAR

Job description

Electronic Arts in Guildford, UK is seeking a Security Detections Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve detection and response capabilities across EA’s global environment. You will own the end-to-end detection lifecycle, from threat-informed use case design to validation and tuning, while developing automation to reduce toil and increase speed.

You will collaborate with SOC and Security Engineering to deliver scalable content, enrichment, correlation, and noise reduction, and