Incident Response Lead

We're looking for a hands-on senior security professional to join a growing entertainment agency, acting as an international incident focal point as the function expands globally.

This role will focus on triaging, investigating, and closing security events while continuously enhancing detection and response capabilities across a modern, cloud-first environment.

Location: London (Ideally 2 days PW but open to flex)

Pay rate: £600-650 Inside IR35

Duration: 6 Months initially

If you're passionate about Threat Detection, Threat Hunting, and Incident Response, and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment - this could be a great fit.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day Incident Response activities across a global environment
• Conduct proactive Threat Hunting using cyber threat intelligence sources
• Design and implement IR runbooks and playbooks
• Coordinate technical and business stakeholders during incidents
• Perform host, cloud, network, memory and log-based investigations and forensics
• Develop and enhance security monitoring, detection logic and reporting
• Create dashboards and visualisations to contextualise security data
• Drive continuous improvement of technical security controls and response processes
• Mentor junior analysts and support wider SOC capability development

Experience Required

• Security operations background with experience in Incident Response, Threat Hunting or technical investigations
• Strong experience in cloud-based IR within hybrid environments
• Ability to develop scripts, tools and methodologies to enhance investigations
• Strong technical understanding of servers, OS, networks, firewalls and cloud infrastructure
• Experience building IR workflows and playbooks
• Confident communicator with the ability to build and maintain relationships

Sound like you? Please apply directly for more detail.