Senior Cyber Incident Response Lead

Sony Pictures Entertainment; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, CA seeks an experienced Lead Cyber Incident Response professional to protect SPE’s people, IP, productions, and technology from cyber threats. You will lead complex investigations, act as incident commander, and advance incident response capabilities across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role requires 8+ years in cybersecurity, strong leadership, and hands-on expertise with cloud security, EDR/XDR, SIEM, and SOAR.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity with focus on incident response, digital forensics, threat hunting, or security operations.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale cybersecurity investigations and incident response efforts.
• Strong knowledge of modern attack techniques, threat actor behavior, digital forensics, and investigative methodologies.
• Experience with cloud security, identity security, endpoint detection and response (EDR/XDR), SIEM, and SOAR platforms.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues to executive and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex cybersecurity investigations from detection through containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Serve as incident commander, coordinating technical responders and business stakeholders.
• Investigate ransomware, identity compromise, phishing, insider threats, data exposure, cloud security incidents.
• Conduct digital forensic investigations to determine root cause, scope, business impact, and remediation.
• Investigate threats affecting SPE IP, content, productions, employees, technology platforms, partners, and operations.
• Assess cyber events from technical and business-risk perspectives, balancing risk reduction with continuity.
• Partner with Legal, Privacy, P&O, Corporate Communications, and leadership on sensitive investigations.
• Collaborate with Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering to enhance capabilities.
• Develop and improve incident response playbooks, runbooks, escalation procedures, methodologies, and standards.
• Drive automation and workflow optimization through SOAR, scripting, AI-enabled capabilities.
• Lead post-incident reviews and translate lessons into improvements.
• Mentor Incident Response analysts through case reviews and training.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Threat hunting

Security operations

Cloud security

Identity security

EDR/XDR

SIEM

SOAR

Executive communication

Tools

Microsoft 365

Azure

AWS

SIEM

SOAR

Job description

Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, CA seeks an experienced Lead Cyber Incident Response professional to protect SPE’s people, IP, productions, and technology from cyber threats. You will lead complex investigations, act as incident commander, and advance incident response capabilities across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role requires 8+ years in cybersecurity, strong leadership, and hands-on expertise with cloud security, EDR/XDR, SIEM, and SOAR.