Senior Cyber Defense & Detection Lead

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 93,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Pension contribution

Private healthcare options

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Detection & Response Engineer to lead complex cyber security investigations, threat hunting and incident response across multiple UK sites. The role requires strong technical leadership and a track record of improving detection and response capabilities.

Hybrid working with two days per week on site is expected. The position offers a salary range of £92,701 to £109,060 and a clear focus on driving automation, threat-led activities and coordination across

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex cyber security incidents within a Security Operations, Cyber Defence or Incident Response environment.
• Proven ability to conduct complex investigations, determine root cause and lead remediation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in fast-moving situations.
• Deep understanding of attacker behaviours, cyber attack lifecycles and modern defence approaches.
• Experience providing technical leadership across technical and business teams.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences during incidents.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate complex cyber security investigations, driving effective analysis, containment, remediation and lessons learned activities.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to engineers during incidents, investigations and threat-led activities.
• Develop and continuously improve detection and response capabilities to strengthen cyber defence outcomes.
• Lead threat hunting, proactive investigations and cyber defence activities to identify and reduce cyber risk.
• Act as a technical authority for security engineering, influencing policies, patterns, roadmaps and investment decisions.
• Drive automation and optimisation opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of detection and response activities.

Skills

Security Engineering

Investigations

Problem Solving

Technology Intelligence

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Security tooling

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Detection & Response Engineer to lead complex cyber security investigations, threat hunting and incident response across multiple UK sites. The role requires strong technical leadership and a track record of improving detection and response capabilities.

Hybrid working with two days per week on site is expected. The position offers a salary range of £92,701 to £109,060 and a clear focus on driving automation, threat-led activities and coordination across