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# Cyber Incident Lead

- **Company:** British Airways
- **Location:** Harmondsworth, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Digital Forensics, Information Security Management, Cybercrime
- **Published:** June 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/cyber-incident-lead-harmondsworth-south-east/2816235277-2/

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on experience responding to and managing cyber incidents
 * Ability to remain calm, structured and decisive under pressure
 * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
 * Clear communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
 * Pragmatic, methodical and outcome-focused approach
 * Collaborative mindset with strong influencing capability

Your experience:

 * Experience in cyber incident response within a large or complex organisation
 * Understanding of incident response methodologies
 * Experience working with threat frameworks is desirable
 * Experience in digital forensics is advantageous
 * Experience in aviation, transport or critical infrastructure is beneficial

## Description

Cyber Incident Lead

You'll be part of the Cyber Incident Management function, a critical capability ensuring British Airways can effectively identify, respond to and recover from cyber incidents across the organisation.

What you'll do:

 * Lead and manage cyber incidents across the BA estate as part of a 24/7 on-call response function
 * Develop, maintain and continuously improve cyber incident response processes
 * Coordinate technical and business stakeholders during incidents
 * Communicate complex technical issues clearly to stakeholders at all levels
 * Perform risk assessments with incomplete or ambiguous information
 * Support the development of in-house digital forensics capability
 * Feed incident learnings into threat intelligence and cyber control tuning
 * Liaise with other operating companies to share indicators of compromise and lessons learnt
 * Manage and continuously improve supplier relationships supporting incident response


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