Detection & Response Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Generous pension

Private health cover

Learning and benefits

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in Leeds is looking for a Detection & Response Engineer within our Cyber Defence Centre to protect the organisation from evolving cyber threats. You will lead investigations, analyse attacker behaviour, and use automation and AI to strengthen detection and response capabilities, with opportunities to coach colleagues and contribute to threat hunting.

This is a hybrid role with on-call duties and a strong focus on collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience investigating security incidents within a SOC or similar environment.
• Expertise analysing attacker behaviour, security events and threat intelligence to support detection and response outcomes.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills for complex situations.
• Experience influencing technical outcomes through collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Experience coaching or mentoring technical colleagues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex investigations into security alerts, incidents and emerging threats, driving containment, eradication and recovery actions.
• Analyse security events, attacker behaviours and threat intelligence to identify risks and determine response actions.
• Undertake threat hunting, forensic investigations and proactive cyber defence activities.
• Improve cyber defence capabilities through continuous detection and response activities.
• Use automation, AI and modern security tooling to improve efficiency and effectiveness of detection and response engineering.
• Coach and support colleagues, sharing expertise and lessons learned to develop team capability.
• Participate in an on-call rota for a small number of weeks each year.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Threat intelligence

Automation in security

Communication skills

Job description

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Help defend one of the UK's largest organisations against evolving cyber threats!

As a Detection & Response Engineer within our Cyber Defence Centre, you'll play a key role in protecting the organisation from cyber threats by leading complex investigations, identifying malicious activity and continuously enhancing our detection and response capabilities.

Working alongside experienced cyber defence professionals, you'll act as a technical specialist, contributing to the identification, investigation, containment and remediation of security incidents while helping strengthen our cyber resilience. This is an individual contributor role, offering opportunities to provide technical leadership, coach colleagues and influence how we detect and respond to threats!

What you'll do:

• Lead complex investigations into security alerts, incidents and emerging threats, driving effective containment, eradication and recovery activities.
• Analyse security events, attacker behaviours and threat intelligence to identify risks and determine appropriate response actions.
• Undertake threat hunting, forensic investigations and proactive cyber defence activities to identify previously unknown threats.
• Improve cyber defence capabilities through continuous detection and response activities, helping enhance operational effectiveness.
• Use automation, AI and modern security tooling to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of detection and response engineering.
• Coach and support colleagues, sharing technical expertise and lessons learned to help develop team capability and engineering excellence.
• Participate in an on-call rota for a small number of weeks each year.

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group

Our continued dedication to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the chance to make a real difference, together.

What you'll need

• Strong experience investigating cyber security incidents within a Security Operations Centre, Cyber Defence, Threat Hunting, Incident Response or similar environment.
• Expertise in analysing attacker behaviour, security events and threat intelligence to support effective detection and response outcomes.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to assess complex situations and determine appropriate actions.
• Experience influencing technical outcomes through collaboration, exchanging information, and technical expertise.
• Experience coaching, mentoring or supporting the development of technical colleagues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

And any experience of this would be really useful

• Experience in one or more specialist cyber defence disciplines such as Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, Threat Analysis or Digital Forensics.
• Experience using automation and AI capabilities to improve cyber defence processes.
• Knowledge of enterprise-scale security tooling and technologies.

This is a place for you...

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A generous pension contribution from the Group.
• Private health cover and wellbeing support.
• Access to a wide range of colleague benefits and flexible benefits options.
• Ongoing learning, development and career growth opportunities.