Cybersecurity Engineer

Creative Artists Agency; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is seeking an experienced security professional to join the Information Security group in London. This hands-on role focuses on delivering end-to-end security services, building and deploying capabilities, and protecting enterprise systems and data with robust controls.

You will work to detect, contain and respond to threats in a fast-paced, cloud-adopting environment, contributing to the security posture across the business and collaborating with IT teams to meet

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a relevant field.
• Experience scripting in PowerShell, Python or JavaScript.
• Experience supporting security tooling: Zero Trust, PKI, EDR/Endpoint protection, WAFs, Secure Email Gateways and Cloud Security.
• Large-scale SIEM or security data lake implementations.
• Strong understanding of servers, OS, networks and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve security tooling aligned to cybersecurity architecture and risk objectives.
• Evaluate threats against existing controls and adapt security measures accordingly.
• Translate threat intelligence into engineering roadmaps.
• Review designs of major applications for security compliance and integration.
• Participate in incident response to detect and mitigate threats.
• Use leadership input to ensure security controls meet objectives and drive continual improvement.
• Support a security engineering culture focused on ownership and outcomes.

Skills

Threat detection

Risk mitigation

Security incident response

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Zero Trust

Network segmentation

SIEM

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

PowerShell

Python

JavaScript

Azure

Web Application Firewalls

Secure Email Gateways

PKI

Security tooling

Job description

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, brand management and consumer product licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, form brand marketing services division, and launch a family office advisory practice, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for 10 consecutive years, CAA represents more than 3,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of property sales and sponsorships, media advisory, brand consulting, venue development and strategic advisory, and executive search. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, London, Nashville, Munich, Shanghai, Beijing, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Singapore, Toronto, Denver, Charlotte, Jacksonville, and Atlanta, among other locations globally. For more information, please visit www.caa.com.

Overview

This is a hands-on security position working within the Information Security group and with the internal IT department. This position’s core focus is to ensure consistent, measurable end-to-end delivery of security services. The successful candidate will work to develop and deploy capabilities, ensuring enterprise systems and data are protected with the security controls and tools required to meet policy and compliance requirements. We are looking for candidates who have a passion for cyber security, threat detection, risk mitigation, and response. You will be a key part of our efforts to build and support a defensible environment where we are able to detect, contain and respond quickly to threats and compromise in ways that serve to enable the business needs of a highly collaborative organisation. The environment is fast-paced and commonly on the leading edge of technology, including early adoption of various cloud services along with the challenges of integrating those services into our security practice.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve security tooling aligned to cybersecurity architecture and risk objectives
• Evaluate new and emerging threats against existing security controls; ensuring controls remain effective to meet business objectives
• Translate threat intelligence and risk assessments into engineering roadmaps
• Review the designs of proposed major applications and upgrades for compliance with security architecture; deliver cross team security integration capabilities
• Play an active role in CAA's security incident response efforts, working to identify and mitigate information security threats
• Use input from IRM leadership and key security metrics to ensure technical security controls are meeting desired objectives; implement a process of continual review and improvement to ensure the measurable effectiveness of CAA’s technical controls and security tooling
• Support a security engineering culture focused on ownership and outcomes

Qualifications / Requirements

• At least 10 years in Information Technology, ideally with a mixed focus on infrastructure and development projects and services
• At least 2 years' experience in information security
• A bachelor’s or master’s Degree in a relevant field of work
• Experience scripting in at least one of the following languages: PowerShell, Python, JavaScript
• Experience supporting the implementation and operation of security tooling in the following areas: Zero Trust Access and Network Segmentation, Public Key Infrastructure (public and private), Endpoint and Workload Protection, Web Application Firewalls, Secure Email Gateways and Filters, Cloud Security, Secure DNS
• Large-scale SIEM or security data lake implementations
• A strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, networks, cloud services, and infrastructure
• An expert understanding of the key controls required for secure operation of these systems
• Experience working in an Azure environment and/or strong knowledge of the Azure cloud environment
• Demonstrated an organized and methodical approach to making improvements on past organizations security programs.
• Has designed and maintained controls to support the secure delivery of applications through continuous development and continuous integration processes
• Has built and managed frameworks to test and validate the effective operation of security controls; measuring the ability to stop threats and attacks at the earliest point in the kill chain
• Background working within or implementing a secure development lifecycle

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As part of our zero-tolerance approach to discrimination in any form, you and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally recognised protected basis under UK law.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third‑party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

Creative Artists Agency (CAA), is the world's leading full service entertainment, media, and sports agency. We represent many of the most successful professionals working in television, film, music, theatre, video games, sports, and digital content. We also provide a range of strategic and marketing consulting services to corporate clients.

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