Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Job Description

Miniclip is looking to hire a Senior Cyber Security Engineer, who is passionate about making a real impact on global security, defending us against top-notch attackers. If you are super motivated and love tackling challenges, join our awesome team for a chance to grow and learn on the job.

You'll be detecting and responding to incidents in real-time, gaining valuable experience across different platforms, and you will have the opportunity to enhance your skills.

This position is opened for our Games Development Studio in Lisbon, Portugal. This is a full-time, permanent, hybrid position.

What will you be doing at Miniclip?

We are looking for someone dynamic that can quickly adapt to new challenges and find solutions by implementing new processes and procedures.

In your daily work you will work on:

• Incident handling: Identifying, triaging, and investigating potential security incidents.
• Systems Administration: Understanding system internals and implement effective countermeasures and remediation strategies on different operating systems;
• Computer Forensic Analysis: Possessing a background in utilizing diverse forensic analysis tools during incident response investigations to assess the scope and depth of compromise;
• Vulnerability Assessment: Review and validate vulnerability reports collected by our systems working closely with cross-functional core/development teams to prioritize and facilitate the remediation of identified vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
• Reporting and documentation: Develop and maintain accurate records of all the incidents, vulnerability reports, assessments, remediation efforts, ensuring clear documentation of findings and resolutions.
• Awareness: Promote security awareness within the organization by conducting training sessions, sharing insights on emerging threats, and fostering a culture of security consciousness.
• Threat Hunting: Performing proactive threat hunting across the group.
• Physical Security: Availability to travel through our different studios to identify physical vulnerabilities and propose remediation measures.

What are we looking for?

Academic Qualifications

• Background in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 
• Equivalent experience may be considered.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in SOC or similar cybersecurity role with exposure to advanced threat detection and analysis;
• Proficiency in SIEM platforms (e.g., Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar) and writing custom correlation rules. 
• Hands-on experience conducting:
  • Technical Software Security Risk Assessments;
  • Vulnerability Assessments in web and/or mobile applications;
  • Physical and Wireless penetration testing;
  • Document and report incidents/assessments/findings.
  • Understanding of cybersecurity standards and frameworks (e.g., ISO27001, NIST, NIS2, OWASP).

Skills and Competences:

• A social and hard-working candidate who thrives in a team environment and is passionate about their work.
• Solid understanding of cyber security best practices and frameworks.
• Proactive and accountable, with excellent communication skills, a strong sense of commitment, and a desire to develop solutions for daily challenges.
• Certifications: 
  • OSEP, OSCP, OSWP, GCIH, CEH, CompTIA Security+, eCPPT, and HTB are a plus. Please include valid credential links (e.g., Credly, Aspen) with your application/CV.

About Miniclip

Miniclip is a global leader in digital games and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. It distributes highly engaging games to a global audience of over 400 million monthly and 70 million daily active users across mobile, social, and online platforms. Operating in 10 countries, Miniclip develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 17 studios.

Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, Miniclip has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the digital games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games globally.

To date, Miniclip’s studios and companies, which have generated more than 8 billion downloads, include the following digital games 8 Ball Pool™, Subway Surfers™, Golf Battle™, Football Strike™, Carrom Pool™, OSM - Online Soccer Manager™, Football Rivals ™, Pure Sniper ™, Puzzle Page ™, Head Ball 2™, Motorsport Manager™, Darts of Fury™, Ultimate Golf™, Mini Football ™, Triple Match 3D ™ and Agar.io™.