Senior Detection and Response Engineer

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Job Description:

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to help protect the infrastructure, services and players behind some of the world’s most iconic gaming franchises at Activision, Blizzard and King.

You’ll join our global Security Operations team in Barcelona, helping to detect, investigate and respond to threats across our cloud platforms, data centres and corporate environments, protecting systems that support hundreds of millions of players worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Detect, investigate and respond to security incidents across cloud, corporate and production environments
• Design and improve detection capabilities and incident response workflows
• Develop automation through SOAR platforms and scripting
• Enhance alert triage and investigations using AI/ML-driven security analytics
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve security visibility and response capabilities
• Share knowledge through internal documentation, playbooks and team collaboration
• Participate in an on-call rotation for incident response

Skills to Create Thrills

You have a self-starter attitude so you’re able to take direction and execute tasks on your own while working in a team.

Key qualifications include:

• BS in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience in security operations, threat detection engineering or incident response.
• Experience using AI/ML techniques in security operations (alert enrichment, behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, automated investigations).
• Strong understanding of the modern threat landscape, common tactics andattacker techniques
• Experience working with security monitoring platforms (SIEM, EDR or similar)
• Scripting or programming skills (Python, PowerShell or similar) to automate security workflows
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to collaborate across teams.
• Fluent in English
• Experience implementing or operating SOAR platforms.
• Must be willing to participate in the on-call rotation.

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people that share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. No matter where you’re from, it’s all about what we can achieve together when creating truly magical moments for all our players. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent - because a great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.