Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead

CAA Club Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) seeks an Executive Security Incident Response Lead to drive end-to-end incident handling across international regions. You will manage triage, containment, and recovery, guiding junior analysts while coordinating with IT and business stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes threat detection, playbook development, and cloud-based security practices, with a focus on measurable improvements and rapid incident containment for a global organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Information Technology with hands-on incident response, threat hunting or forensics.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to mentor and train junior security analysts.
• Expertise in cloud-based incident response and log analysis.
• Experience building workflows and playbooks to facilitate IR processes.
• Strong understanding of servers, networks, firewalls, cloud apps and related tech.
• Experience with security metrics, reporting and continual improvement.
• Proficiency in scripting/tools to enhance investigations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the executive point of contact during major international security incidents.
• Define and execute the organisation's global incident response strategy and roadmap.
• Lead and mentor incident response teams to foster a high-performance culture.
• Coordinate with technical and business stakeholders during IR processes.
• Perform day-to-day IR activities and SOC-related detection and response tasks.
• Develop runbooks and playbooks for incident response.
• Create dashboards and visualisations to contextualise security data.
• Review logs and provide recommendations to improve security controls.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Cyber threat intelligence

Leadership/mentoring

Cloud security

Forensics

Security operations

Vulnerability assessment

Education

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

Job description

Job Description

THE AGENCY

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a leading entertainment and sports agency, with globalexpertisein 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 workforceidentifies, 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, andlaunch a family office advisory practice, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency byForbesfor 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

Executive level position reporting to the Director of Cyber Threat Management & Incident Response, this is a hands-on senior 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 triage and closure of security related events. The successful candidate will work to assess, develop, and deploy detection capabilities and processes ensuring enterprise systems and data are protected, serving as the Incident Response Lead for European and Pacific regions of the organisation.

We are looking for candidates who have a passion forcybersecurity,threatdetection, threathunting, andincidentresponse. You will be a key part of our efforts to build and support a defensible environment where we are able to detect,containand respond quickly to threats and compromise in ways that serve to enable the business needs of a highly collaborative organisation. The environment isfast-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 to include:

• Serve as the executive point of contact during major international security incidents.


• Assistwith the defining and execution of the organisation’s global incident response strategy and roadmap as it pertains to the international areas of operation.


• Lead and mentor the incident response teams, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture.


• Coordinate with both technical and business stakeholders during the incident response process.


• Conduct day-to-day Incident Response activities as well asadditionalSOC related detection and response activities asrequiredfor a global environment.


• ProactivelymonitorCyber Threat Intelligence resources to serve as the basis for searching andidentifyingrelevant signs of security incidents or anomalousbehaviour(Threat Hunting).


• Design, engineer, and implement runbooks and playbooks for Incident Response.


• Develop and implement strategies tocontainand limit the impact of security incidents.


• Perform host based, cloud based, network based, memory, or log analysis and/or forensics in support of Incident Response investigations.


• Influence and play an active role in CAA’s Security Incident Response efforts, working toidentifyand mitigate information security threats.


• Reviewsecurity information, event logs, and reports, provide findings and recommendations for improvements and logging standardisation.


• Responsible for the development ofend-to-endsecurity monitoring and reporting;ensuringexpectedcontrolsare in place andperformingasdesigned.


• Evaluatenew and emerging threats against existingsecuritycontrols;ensuring controlsremaineffectivein changingbusiness andthreat landscapes.


• Crafting searches and logic to detect anomalous behaviour in user, network,hostand cloud activity.


• Create meaningful visualisations, reporting, and dashboards to help contextualise data.


• Use input from IRM leadership and key security metrics to ensure technical security controls are meeting desiredobjectives; implement a process of continual review and improvement to ensure the measurable effectiveness of CAA’s technical controls.


• Other projects or duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• A minimum of 8+ years in Information Technology, ideally withat least5 years’ experience in a hands-onincidentresponse,threathunting, or technical investigation and forensics role


• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field of work, or equivalent work experience


• Ability to mentor and train junior Security and Incident Response Analysts


• ExpertiseinCloud-based Incident Response and log analysis within a hybrid cloud environment


• Experience developing scrips, tools, andmethodologyto enhance the investigation process


• Strong technical background with experience in at least three of the following:


• Identity Forensics


• Windows disk and memory forensics


• Network traffic analysis (NetFlow, cap)


• Unix or Linux disk and memory forensics


• Malware analysis – both static and dynamic


• A strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, networks, firewalls, cloud applications, and infrastructure


• Expertisebuilding workflows and playbooks tofacilitatethe Incident Response process


• Proficiencyin the NIST framework and using a continuous improvement loop


• Has a proventrack recordfor building and managing frameworks to test andvalidatethe effective operation of security controls; measuring the ability to respond to threats and attacks at the earliest point in the kill chain

Please ensure you provide complete and legible information in your application. An incomplete application may affect your consideration for employment.

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.

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