Lead, Cyber Incident Response

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is seeking an experienced Lead Cyber Incident Response professional to help protect the companys people intellectual property productions technology platforms and business operations from cyber threats.

This role leads complex cybersecurity investigations coordinates response activities during significant security incidents and advances SPEs incident response capabilities. The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical resource within the Incident Response team leading investigations across corporate cloud identity SaaS and production environments while partnering with Security Operations Threat Intelligence Engineering Legal Privacy People & Organization (P&O) Corporate Communications and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Incident Response and Investigations
  • Lead complex cybersecurity investigations from initial detection through containment eradication recovery and post-incident review.
  • Serve as incident commander for assigned incidents coordinating technical responders and business stakeholders throughout the response lifecycle.
  • Investigate ransomware identity compromise phishing insider threats data exposure cloud security incidents and other advanced cyber threats.
  • Conduct digital forensic investigations to determine root cause scope business impact and remediation requirements.
• Business and Asset Protection
  • Investigate threats affecting SPE intellectual property content productions employees technology platforms third-party partners and business operations.
  • Assess cyber events from both technical and business-risk perspectives balancing risk reduction with operational continuity.
  • Partner with Legal Privacy People & Organization (P&O) Corporate Communications and business leadership on sensitive investigations and response activities.
• Security Operations and Continuous Improvement
  • Collaborate with Security Operations Threat Intelligence Detection Engineering and Security Engineering to enhance detection and response capabilities.
  • Develop and improve incident response playbooks runbooks escalation procedures investigative methodologies and operational standards.
  • Drive automation and workflow optimization through SOAR scripting AI-enabled capabilities and emerging technologies.
  • Lead post-incident reviews and translate lessons learned into measurable security and operational improvements.
• Technical Leadership
  • Serve as a senior escalation point for complex investigations and high-severity incidents.
  • Mentor Incident Response analysts through case reviews training coaching and knowledge sharing.
  • Provide clear technical updates executive-ready summaries after-action reports and risk-informed recommendations.
  • Contribute to strategic initiatives that strengthen SPE cyber resilience and operational maturity.

Qualifications

• 8 years of cybersecurity experience with significant focus on incident response digital forensics threat hunting or security operations.
• Proven 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.

• Experience supporting global media entertainment technology or other highly distributed enterprise environments.
• Experience investigating incidents involving intellectual property insider threats data exposure or third-party compromise.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Azure AWS modern SaaS environments and identity platforms.
• Knowledge of Python PowerShell or other scripting and automation technologies.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP GCIH GCFA GCIA GNFA or equivalent.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability veteran status age sexual orientation gender identity or other protected characteristics.

SPE will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.

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