Sr Security Operations Engineer, Detection and Response

Senior Security Operations Engineer, Detection and Response

Company: Fortis Games Location: Remote (Canada, UK) Employment Type: Permanent

About the Role

Fortis Games is seeking a Senior Security Operations Engineer, Detection and Response to help build and mature our security operations capabilities. This is a senior, hands-on role for an individual who understands Security Operations Center (SOC) requirements at a high engineering level. You will translate attacker behaviors, telemetry, and operational risks into reliable detections, effective response workflows, and measurable security improvements.

You will be responsible for owning and enhancing the systems used to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across our corporate, cloud, identity, endpoint, and game development environments. This includes building and maintaining detection logic, improving SIEM and EDR workflows, developing detection-as-code practices, and utilizing deception techniques to gain high-signal visibility into suspicious activities.

This role is ideal for someone with a builder mindset, who enjoys startup-style ownership, and is eager to create practical security capabilities in a fast-paced environment. While not primarily a GRC role, you should be comfortable dedicating approximately 20% of your time to supporting audit readiness, control evidence, third-party reviews, policy documentation, and related governance activities requiring technical security judgment.

This position requires participation in a schedule that includes weekends to ensure continuous security operations coverage across time zones.

What You'll Achieve

• Design, implement, test, and tune detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, network, and application telemetry.
• Build detection-as-code practices utilizing version control, testing, peer review, documentation, and repeatable deployment methods.
• Improve SIEM and security telemetry pipelines, including log ingestion, parsing, enrichment, correlation logic, alert routing, and case management workflows.
• Design and operate practical deception capabilities such as canary tokens, decoy accounts, honey assets, and other high-signal tripwires.
• Lead and support incident response investigations, including performing severity triage, coordinating containment and remediation, and producing clear post-incident findings.
• Collaborate closely with IT, infrastructure, engineering, and game development teams to enhance security visibility and response readiness across the environment.
• Support selected GRC activities, including audit evidence collection, technical control documentation, third-party risk input, and policy or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documentation (approximately 20% of time).

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• 6+ years of experience in security operations, detection engineering, incident response, or a similar hands-on technical security role.
• Strong experience writing, tuning, validating, and maintaining detections within SIEM, EDR, cloud, identity, or SaaS environments.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms and EDR tools such as CrowdStrike Falcon or comparable technologies.
• Practical AWS security knowledge, including IAM, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, VPC flow logs, S3, and cloud-native detection opportunities.
• Ability to script or automate security workflows using Python, Bash, PowerShell, SQL, or similar tools.
• Working knowledge of audit evidence, control documentation, third-party reviews, policies, standards, and security frameworks.
• Willingness to work a weekend-inclusive schedule to support continuous security operations coverage.
• Experience in gaming, entertainment, SaaS, or lean cloud-native security teams is strongly preferred.
• Bonus: Experience with threat hunting, adversary emulation, SOAR or workflow automation, deception technologies, security data engineering, or security metrics. Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GNFA, GCTI, or OSCP are welcomed but not a substitute for hands-on technical judgment.

Why Join Us

• Be part of a company that is redefining how game studios operate, focusing on creating great games that foster connected communities.
• Join a thriving environment that celebrates diversity, embraces inclusivity, and fosters growth, building communities where our people belong.
• Contribute and grow alongside a seasoned team of accomplished professionals with impactful careers both within and outside the gaming industry.

Fortis Games is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.