Security Analytics Engineer

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation were part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

Job description

The successful candidate will join the Security Data Analytics team working across PlayStation data assets and business team develops the data products pipelines dashboards and reporting that help Information Security teams understand security posture risk trends control effectiveness exposure and remediation progress. Our work is increasingly built on automation and AI-enabled analytics and this role builds the data foundations that make that possible.

This opening focuses on the backend of that work. Reporting to the Director of Security Data Analytics you will design and operate the data engineering foundations our analytics depend on: ingestion and transformation pipelines Snowflake data models automation and the enrichment and AI-ready data patterns that turn raw security signals into trusted analytics-ready -layer engineers own most visualization delivery so your primary contribution is the reliability structure and performance of the data layer including keeping it running day to day.

This is a technical individual contributor role. You will solve moderately complex problems with limited supervision and own a discrete workstream or a sub-set of a larger effort working closely with a global set of stakeholders. This role is UK-based and remote-eligible.

Responsibilities

• Design build and optimize data ingestion transformation and enrichment pipelines that turn security technology and business data into trusted analytics-ready data.

• Build and maintain Snowflake data models and warehouse objects that support reporting visualization automation and AI-enabled use cases.

• Develop automation that reduces manual data handling and reporting effort and improves reliability across the platform.

• Prepare AI-ready data and support AI-enabled analytics and reasoning workflows built on our data platform.

• Add business and technical context to security data to improve prioritization and decision-making.

• Apply software engineering practices to data and analytics code including version control testing code review and CI.

• Run and support the teams pipelines and data products in production: monitor health respond to failures and troubleshoot and resolve ingestion and pipeline issues to keep data flowing reliably.

• Partner with global stakeholders across security IT studio platform and engineering teams to translate requirements into reliable data and reporting.

• Document data models pipelines and solutions so the team can support them.

• Share knowledge with teammates and contribute to team projects as priorities shift.

Qualifications

• 4 years creating analytics reporting data engineering or data platform solutions.

• Hands-on SQL and strong knowledge of database technologies (relational columnar or NoSQL).

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake our primary data platform.

• Experience building data pipelines and applying data modeling concepts for analytics or data warehouse use cases.

• Experience operating data pipelines in production: monitoring troubleshooting and resolving ingestion and pipeline failures.

• Experience with scripting and automation (Python Java R or similar).

• Experience preparing data for or supporting AI-enabled analytics or machine learning workflows.

• Experience with REST APIs common data formats (JSON XML) and platform SDKs or APIs.

• Software engineering practices for analytics code: version control testing and CI.

• Experience with large complex data sets; security technology risk or compliance data a plus.

• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams with clear written and verbal communication about data and technical tradeoffs.

• Some travel may be required.

Desired qualifications

• Advanced Snowflake features such as tasks streams dynamic tables and performance tuning.

• Experience with dbt or a similar transformation and modeling framework.

• Experience automating data workflows or building AI-ready or AI-enabled data products.

• Working knowledge of security risk vulnerability asset identity cloud or control data sets.

• Familiarity with data quality governance or lineage concepts.

• Experience with Domo or similar BI and visualization platforms including dashboards.

• Experience with web technologies (JavaScript HTML CSS) and third-party JavaScript visualizations.

• Exposure to cybersecurity concepts such as vulnerabilities controls cloud security identity incident response or risk.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working
• Discretionary bonus opportunity
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Scheme
• London Allowance (if applicable)
• 25 days holiday per year
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• Free soft drinks
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers

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