Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in London seeks an executive-level Incident Response Lead to drive end-to-end detection, containment, and response to security events across Europe and the Pacific. The role combines hands-on security work with leadership within the Information Security group and collaboration with IT.

You will develop runbooks, mentor analysts, and guide global incident response strategy, leveraging cloud services and threat intelligence to accelerate containment and improve

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT, with at least 5 years in incident response or forensics.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to mentor junior security analysts.
• Cloud-based incident response and log analysis experience.
• Experience developing scripts/tools to enhance investigations.
• Strong background in servers, OS, networks, and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Act as executive point of contact during major incidents.
• Define and execute global incident response strategy for international ops.
• Lead incident response teams and mentor staff.
• Coordinate with technical and business stakeholders during IR process.
• Conduct day-to-day IR activities and SOC detection/response tasks.
• Monitor threat intelligence to identify signs of incidents (threat hunting).
• Design runbooks and playbooks for incident response.
• Develop strategies to contain and limit impact of incidents.
• Perform host/network/cloud/log analysis and forensics in IR investigations.
• Influence and contribute to the organisation's IR efforts.
• Review logs and reports with findings and recommendations.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Forensics

Cloud security

Threat intelligence

Scripting

NIST framework

Leadership mentoring

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in a relevant field

Job description

About the Role

Reporting to the Director of Cyber Threat Management & Incident Response, this executive-level, hands-on senior security position works within the Information Security group and alongside the internal IT department. The role centres on ensuring consistent, measurable end-to-end triage and closure of security events, and involves assessing, developing, and deploying detection capabilities to protect enterprise systems and data. The successful candidate will serve as the Incident Response Lead for European and Pacific regions, playing a key part in building a defensible environment to quickly detect, contain, and respond to threats. The environment is fast-paced and commonly on the leading edge of technology, including early adoption of various cloud services.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the executive point of contact during major international security incidents.
• Assist with defining and executing the organisation's global incident response strategy and roadmap as it pertains to international areas of operation.
• Lead and mentor 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 as additional SOC-related detection and response activities as required for a global environment.
• Proactively monitor Cyber Threat Intelligence resources to serve as the basis for searching and identifying relevant signs of security incidents or anomalous behaviour (threat hunting).
• Design, engineer, and implement runbooks and playbooks for incident response.
• Develop and implement strategies to contain and 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 to identify and mitigate information security threats.
• Review security information, event logs, and reports, providing findings and recommendations for improvements and logging standardisation.
• Develop end-to-end security monitoring and reporting, ensuring expected controls are in place and performing as designed.
• Evaluate new and emerging threats against existing security controls, ensuring controls remain effective in changing business and threat landscapes.
• Craft searches and logic to detect anomalous behaviour in user, network, host, and cloud activity.
• Create meaningful visualisations, reporting, and dashboards to help contextualise data.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• A minimum of 8+ years in Information Technology, ideally with at least 5 years' experience in a hands-on incident response, threat hunting, 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.
• Expertise in cloud-based incident response and log analysis within a hybrid cloud environment.
• Experience developing scripts, tools, and methodology to enhance the investigation process.
• Strong technical background with experience in at least three of: 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.
• Expertise building workflows and playbooks to facilitate the incident response process.
• Proficiency in the NIST framework and using a continuous improvement loop.
• Proven track record for building and managing frameworks to test and validate the effective operation of security controls, measuring the ability to respond to threats and attacks at the earliest point in the kill chain.

About the Company

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, consumer product licensing, and philanthropy. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CAA 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, and has been named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for 10 consecutive years.