Detection Engineer — Security Analytics & Automation

Electronic Arts (EA); England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Partner with Security Operations and Engineering to deploy meaningful alerts, evolve automation platforms, and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in security detection engineering in an enterprise environment.
• Proficiency in automation development (Python preferred) and building/consuming APIs (REST, auth patterns, secrets handling)
• Experience building detection logic using endpoint and/or cloud telemetry, with a strong grasp of attacker tradecraft and common compromise chains
• Ability to design validation approaches and measure detection performance (precision/noise reduction) using data-driven methods
• Experience with security automation (SOAR)

Responsibilities

• Design and improve detection and response capabilities across EA's environment.
• Own end-to-end detection lifecycle from design to handoff.
• Develop automation to reduce toil and speed risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with SOC to produce meaningful alerts.
• Contribute to AI-assisted detection roadmap with governance and safety.

Skills

Security detection engineering

Automation development

Python

REST APIs

Endpoint telemetry

Data-driven validation

SOAR

Job description

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

Partner with Security Operations and Engineering to deploy meaningful alerts, evolve automation platforms, and