Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary offered

About the Role
The Senior Security Analyst will be a key member of the Cyber Security team, responsible for detecting potential security events, managing risk, and driving effective responses. This role offers the opportunity to help grow the team’s capabilities, which have a direct impact on protecting Square Enix’s games, systems, and data. Day-to-day responsibilities include identifying, prioritising, and reducing organisational cyber risk through proactive exposure management, investigating alerts, and responding to incidents. The role involves maintaining and optimising Cyber Security tooling and contributing to increased automation and AI integration. Analytical and risk management skills will be applied across the team to ensure vulnerabilities and exposures are identified, prioritized by risk, and remediated efficiently. This position suits someone with broad cyber security experience seeking to deepen expertise and make a measurable impact in a fast-moving industry.

Roles, Responsibilities, and KPIs
Own and continuously improve the Vulnerability Management process, leveraging automation and AI for efficient triage, analysis, and remediation. Drive Exposure Management initiatives focusing on risk-based outcomes, including vulnerability discovery, prioritisation, and remediation tracking. Monitor internal and external attack surface exposure across cloud, on-premises, and third-party assets. Collaborate with system owners to manage vulnerabilities and assist with timely resolution actions. Support Security Risk Management with risk analysis and third-party risk assessments. Design and implement automation-supported workflows and explore AI-assisted features within security tools to enhance efficiency and consistency. Maintain and enhance tools and platforms to improve intelligence, detection, and response capabilities. Perform in-depth investigation and analysis of security alerts to identify and respond promptly to security events. Collaborate with stakeholders during investigations to gather information and coordinate responses. Leverage threat intelligence to drive proactive security actions. Influence team strategy by presenting insights on security events, alerts, and incidents. Maintain broad understanding of IT environments and key assets to improve incident response. Support detection of game-specific abuses such as leaks, cheats, piracy, copyright abuse, player account compromise, and rogue sites.

Performance Measures
Mitigation time for Critical and High risk vulnerabilities
Mean time for business recovery to C1 (highest criticality) level security incidents
Security event triage time
Game/brand leak detection timeframes

Experience
- Experience in cyber security, security operations, risk, IT, engineering, or similar environments with exposure to security monitoring and response.
- Experience responding to or handling major cyber security incidents.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with Cyber Security tools such as Vulnerability/Exposure Management, SOAR, and SIEM platforms.
- Ability to query and analyse structured log data.
- Familiarity with common Incident Response frameworks such as NIST.
- Strong understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.

About You
- Effective communicator with non-technical stakeholders and executives.
- Able to stay focused and work methodically during incidents with team support.
- Curious about how automation and AI-assisted capabilities can enhance Cyber Security work.
- Comfortable prioritising tasks, making sound risk-based recommendations, and knowing when to escalate.
- Flexible to occasionally support urgent incidents while maintaining sustainable work planning.

Qualifications
- Relevant Security Operations, Incident Response, or Risk Management certifications are welcomed but not mandatory if equivalent practical experience is demonstrated.

Purpose & Values
Purpose: Creating New Worlds with Boundless Imagination to Enhance People’s Lives.
Values:
- Deliver Unforgettable Experiences
- Embrace Challenges
- Act Swiftly
- Stronger Together
- Continuously Evolve
- Cultivate Integrity