Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead

TL;DR

Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead: Lead end-to-end triage and closure of security incidents for European and Pacific regions with an accent on threat detection, hunting, and response in a hybrid cloud environment. Focus on designing playbooks, conducting forensics analysis, mentoring teams, and implementing strategies to contain and mitigate threats.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

Leading entertainment and sports agency with global offices in multiple countries, focusing on client service, innovation, and collaboration.

What you will do

• Serve as executive point of contact during major international security incidents.
• Lead and mentor incident response teams, coordinating with technical and business stakeholders.
• Conduct day-to-day incident response, SOC detection, threat hunting, and forensics analysis (host, cloud, network, memory, logs).
• Design, engineer, and implement runbooks, playbooks, and strategies to contain incidents.
• Monitor threat intelligence, review logs, evaluate threats, and develop monitoring/reporting dashboards.
• Influence global incident response strategy and ensure security controls effectiveness.

Requirements

• 8+ years in IT, with 5+ years hands-on in incident response, threat hunting, or forensics.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in cloud-based incident response and log analysis in hybrid environments.
• Experience developing scripts/tools for investigations and building IR workflows/playbooks.
• Strong background in at least three: identity forensics, Windows/Unix forensics, network traffic analysis, malware analysis.
• Understanding of servers, OS, networks, firewalls, cloud apps; proficiency in NIST framework.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative culture with exceptional client service and innovation focus.
• Diverse workforce promoting equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion.
• Fast-paced environment on the leading edge of technology, including cloud services.
• Zero-tolerance for discrimination, support for applicants with assistance needs.