Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are...
When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
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Must be able to work a hybrid model (3 days onsite) out of our Atlanta office.
Your New Role:
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is seeking a Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC) Manager to lead a high-performing 24x7 CSOC team responsible for monitoring, detecting, and responding to cyber threats across a global enterprise. This critical role ensures the security and resilience of WBD's digital assets, content, and infrastructure in a fast-paced and evolving threat landscape.
This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact security team in a fast-paced environment, driving continuous improvement and innovation in cyber defense.
Your Role Accountabilities:
Security Operations & Leadership: (70%)
- Deliver & Execution - Oversee and drive the implementation of security operations, support incident response investigations, and threat mitigation strategies to protect the organization's critical assets.
- Plans & Aligns - Guide teams in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution, ensuring security priorities, objectives, and deliverables are met effectively.
- Develop Others - Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching to the CSOC team, fostering skill development and career growth.
- Cross-Team Collaboration - Partner with security, IT, and business teams to reduce vulnerabilities, manage risk, and improve CSOC response capabilities.
- Monitor Emerging Threats & Industry Trends - Stay ahead of the evolving cyber threat landscape by integrating intelligence, hunting for advanced threats, and continuously improving detection methodologies
- Continuous Improvement - Enhance CSOC workflows, automation, and threat intelligence processes to strengthen security operations.
Support IR investigations: (20%)
- Incident coordination by assignment of Work Streams and creation of reports
- Serve as the technical escalation point for the CSOC team.
- Provide ad-hoc training to team members.
Project Work: (10%)
- Perform CSOC maturity projects under the guidance of Cyber Operations Leadership
- Partner with Security Engineering teams to enhance features and capabilities within current security tooling.
- Create and update written policies and procedures.
Qualifications & Experiences:
- 6 - 8 years of relevant IT experience or equivalent demonstrable knowledge & skill set.
- Ability to think critically to solve problems with minimal guidance.
- Ability to perform comprehensive Incident, root cause analysis and write technical reports.
- The ability to conduct investigations on multiple operating systems such as Linux, iOS, and Windows.
- Experience performing manual log analysis from a variety of host-based and network-based sources.
- The ability to conduct security investigations without the assistance of pre-extracted data or pre-established queries across multiple platforms like a SIEM, OS CLI/Terminal, EDR tool, etc.
- Familiarity with Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) concepts.
- Experience participating in CIRT/CSIRT investigations.
- Knowledge of exploits, vulnerabilities, malware families and common attack vectors.
- Effective in collaborating with teams in remote offices and multiple cultures across the globe.
Not Required but preferred experience:
- Intermediate and/or Advanced Security Certifications are a plus - CYSA+, CISSP, CFR, CHFI, GCIH, GCFA, or GNFA, PenTest+, OSCP, etc.
How We Get Things Done...
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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