Cyber Incident Responder

Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid (Candidates must be able to attend the office once per week. Flexible working options available.)

We are looking for an experienced Incident responder to join our Cyber team. You’ll apply your technical knowledge and analytical thinking to investigate and understand the scope of security incidents and threats. Your ability to clearly communicate technical findings will help provide key contextual information to decision makers, enabling informed responses.

As a developing member of the team, you’ll also have opportunities to collaborate with other teams and contribute to improvements across our prevention, detection, and response capabilities.

What you’ll be doing

• Investigation and Response: Undertake host, network, and cloud-based forensic analysis to understand the scope of security incidents and support response actions to contain, remediate, and recover.
• Incident Handling: Support incident managers and senior stakeholders with root cause analysis and formulate recommendations for detective and preventive controls.
• Technical Project Work: You will use your technical capabilities to work on “DFIR-led” projects to enhance existing processes as well as identifying and working on new methods to deliver proactive incident response capability to the ever-changing technology requirements of the business.
• Threat Hunting: You will participate in intelligence-based threat hunts and share outcomes to support our internal and managed detection engineering programmes.
• Work cross functionally with other engineering teams.

Note: This position will require participation in an on-call rotation.

What we’re looking for

• Exposure to security incidents in large-scale corporate environments.
• Familiarity with forensic analysis on Windows, MacOS, or Unix operating systems, a growing understanding of how those operating systems function and a desire to learn more.
• Experience of enterprise security technologies such as EDR, SOAR, and SIEM.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in a calm and professional manner.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language with a desire to learn more.
• Experience in performing basic static and dynamic triage of suspicious files desirable but not required.
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What we offer

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
Life Insurance.
Discretionary annual performance bonus.
Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
Flexible working hours.
25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

About Jagex

We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company- home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.

As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025 representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit www.jagex.com.

Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, We are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission- to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions & values - We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences which inspire our communities. Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.

Join us. The next era of RuneScape - and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company - starts now.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.