Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer chez Tencent Holdings

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will play a key role in supporting internal and acquired game studios by designing and implementing reliable systems and seamless operations for game publishing. The work scope will include understanding the studios’ business requirements, collecting the technical requirements, developing reference architecture and prototypes based on leading industry best practices, assisting implementation and deployment globally, as well as conducting troubleshooting when necessary.

• Develop and maintain security reference architectures and prototypes for game publishing infrastructure, incorporating industry best practices for cloud, network, and application security.

• Assist game studios with the global implementation and deployment of security solutions, providing hands-on expert support and advanced troubleshooting.

• Design, implement, and manage the global Anti-DDoS strategy to protect low-latency gaming infrastructure, including real-time game servers, matchmaking services, and player APIs.

• Configure, operate, and fine-tune a multi-layered security perimeter, including Web Application Firewalls (WAF), IDS/IPS, and multi-vendor DDoS mitigation platforms (on-prem, cloud-native, and CDN).

• Create and maintain detailed incident response playbooks tailored to specific games and services, ensuring rapid and repeatable mitigation actions.

• Architect and deploy secure, resilient, and high-performance network infrastructure within multi-region cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Actively contribute to the estabilishment and enhancement of the SIEM platform and SOC operations by developing advanced detection rules, correlation searches, and automated response actions.

• Utilize programming skills (e.g., Python) to develop scripts and automation that streamline security operations, compliance checks, and secure infrastructure deployment.