Detection Engineer: Threat Hunting & Advanced Detections

Talent Smart Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Smart Limited is recruiting a Detection Engineer to join a growing internal defensive security team. The role covers London or Sheffield with 1-2 days onsite per week and an initial 6-month contract.

You’ll help build high-quality detections and contribute to threat hunting across the organisation. You’ll work in an Agile/Scrum environment on defensive security initiatives, translating threat intelligence into actionable detections while collaborating with global teams.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years' experience across technology operations, development or security.
• Experience with AI is hugely beneficial and a key area of interest for the team.
• Multi-cloud experience, ideally with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Hands-on experience writing and developing security detections
• Strong understanding of threat hunting and defensive security
• Experience working with threat intelligence and translating intelligence into actionable detections
• Experience within a large financial services organisation or similarly complex, highly regulated environment
• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum delivery environment
• Curious, technically minded and hungry to investigate how attackers operate and how they can be detected

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality detection use cases from external threat intelligence and internal security data
• Analyse intelligence and translate it into effective detections for the organisation
• Use Red Team outputs to identify gaps, understand attack techniques and determine where to detect malicious activity
• Conduct threat hunting and identify opportunities to improve defensive coverage
• Work closely with security and technology teams to understand the environment and optimise detection capability
• Deliver detection engineering through Agile, sprint-based and Scrum ways of working

Skills

Threat hunting

Security detections

Cloud security

Multi-cloud

Agile/Scrum

Threat intel

Financial services

Curious mindset

Job description

Talent Smart Limited is recruiting a Detection Engineer to join a growing internal defensive security team. The role covers London or Sheffield with 1-2 days onsite per week and an initial 6-month contract.

You’ll help build high-quality detections and contribute to threat hunting across the organisation. You’ll work in an Agile/Scrum environment on defensive security initiatives, translating threat intelligence into actionable detections while collaborating with global teams.