Lead, Security Operations & Incident Response
Posted:
15 October 2026 (20 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
12 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
You will be accountable for building a resilient intelligence-led defence operation. This includes leading a team of internal analysts governing external SOC/MSSP partners and partnering with technology teams to embed security across cloud on-premise and media production environments.
Key Accountabilities
A. Security Operations & Team Leadership
- Manage coach and develop a team of 4-5 security analysts; provide direction prioritization and quality oversight.
- Govern third-party SOC / MSSP relationships drive SLA adherence service improvement and value realization.
- Own the end-to-end SecOps process and drive automation to improve MTTD / MTTR.
- Manage budgets vendor contracts and evaluation / rollout of new defence tooling.
B. Threat Detection Hunting & Response
- Take ownership of real-time monitoring alert triage and proactive hunting activities to pre-empt threats.
- Serve as the senior escalation for critical incidents (SIRM function) orchestrate containment eradication recovery and lessons-learned.
- Engineer and continuously tune detections correlation logic and hunt playbooks across SIEM and EDR stacks.
- Author and regularly exercise IR playbooks escalation matrices and crisis communication plans; ensure readiness through tabletop exercises.
C. Intelligence & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Operationalize threat intelligence ingest contextualize and apply intel to detection and response.
- Keep abreast of emerging threats adversary TTPs and threat actor campaigns particularly those targeting media & content platforms.
- Engage with external intel-sharing forums regulators and technology partners to strengthen collective defence.
- Work in lockstep with Cloud DevOps IT and Infrastructure teams to ensure security controls (firewall IDS/IPS encryption IAM) are architected and operated effectively.
D. Governance & Reporting
- Report SecOps performance risk posture and improvement roadmaps to the CISO and senior leadership through clear metrics and KPIs.
- Ensure operations remain compliant with NIST CSF ISO 27001 GDPR SOC 2 and other applicable standards.
What You Bring
- 7 years of progressive experience in Cyber Security with at least 3 years managing a SecOps / SOC team in an enterprise or hybrid outsourced model.
- Demonstrated success leading complex incident response crisis management and threat hunting at scale.
- Strong practitioner-level expertise across SIEM (Splunk Sentinel etc.) SOAR EDR and TIP.
- Solid grasp of cloud security across AWS / Azure / GCP; experience securing streaming OTT or content delivery workflows is highly desirable.
- Deep understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and how to operationalize it for detection coverage.
- Working knowledge of scripting & analytics Python PowerShell KQL SPL or similar.
- Outstanding leadership communication and stakeholder influence able to brief senior executives under pressure.
- Industry certifications are a plus: CISSP CISM GCIH ECIH CCSP AWS Security Specialty Azure Security Engineer.