Senior Cyber Defense & Incident Response Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Pension contribution

Discretionary annual award

Private healthcare options

Flexible and hybrid working

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Detection & Response Engineer to defend one of the UK's largest organisations from evolving cyber threats. Hybrid work style requires at least two days per week in office, with salary £92,701–£109,060.

You will lead investigations, mentor engineers and shape detection capabilities within the Cyber Defence Centre. The role emphasizes technical leadership, threat hunting and incident response across the UK, with opportunities to influence security strategy

Qualifications

• Security Engineering: demonstrated experience leading cyber security incidents.
• Investigations: ability to conduct complex investigations and lead remediation.
• Problem solving: analytical, fast-moving decision making.
• Technology intelligence: understanding attacker behaviours and threats.
• Collaboration: leadership and mentoring across teams.
• Stakeholder management: communicating with technical and non-technical audiences during incidents.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Security engineering

Investigations

Problem solving

Technology intelligence

Collaboration

Stakeholder management

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Detection & Response Engineer to defend one of the UK's largest organisations from evolving cyber threats. Hybrid work style requires at least two days per week in office, with salary £92,701–£109,060.

You will lead investigations, mentor engineers and shape detection capabilities within the Cyber Defence Centre. The role emphasizes technical leadership, threat hunting and incident response across the UK, with opportunities to influence security strategy