Senior Detection & Response Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in Manchester is hiring a Senior Detection & Response Engineer to defend a major UK financial institution against evolving cyber threats. You will lead complex investigations, provide technical leadership, and develop detection and response capabilities in a hybrid work environment.

You will drive threat hunting, proactive security activities and act as an authority on security engineering, shaping policies and investments to strengthen cyber resilience.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex cyber security incidents within a Security Operations or Incident Response context.
• Proven ability to conduct root-cause analysis and oversee remediation and recovery efforts.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills in fast-moving situations.
• Deep understanding of attacker behaviours, cyber kill chains and modern defence approaches.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership during incidents.
• Ability to communicate clearly with senior leaders and technical teams during incidents.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Security Engineering

Investigations

Problem Solving

Technology Intelligence

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

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 Senior Detection & Response Engineer within our Cyber Defence Centre, you’ll play a key role in protecting the organisation from cyber threats as a senior individual contributor.

You’ll combine deep technical expertise across detection and response engineering, complex investigation management and cyber defence capability development. Working closely with engineers and senior technical colleagues, you’ll help shape solutions, influence technical decisions and strengthen our resilience against a constantly changing threat landscape.

Key responsibilities include:

• 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.

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing in people, technology and data is at the heart of our strategy, helping us create better outcomes for our customers, businesses and communities.

Join us and you’ll be part of a collaborative environment where your expertise can make a meaningful impact on the security and resilience of one of the UK’s largest financial services organisations.

What you’ll need

• Security Engineering: Demonstrated experience leading and handling complex cyber security incidents within a Security Operations, Cyber Defence or Incident Response environment.
• Investigations: Proven ability to conduct complex investigations, determine root cause, assess the extent of compromise and lead remediation and recovery efforts.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound decisions in fast-moving and ambiguous situations.
• Technology Intelligence: Deep understanding of attacker behaviours, cyber attack lifecycles, emerging threats and modern cyber defence approaches.
• Collaboration: Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring and guidance while working effectively across technical and business teams.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to communicate clearly with technical specialists, senior leaders and non-technical audiences during cyber incidents and response activities. [

And any experience of this would be really useful

• Experience developing and enhancing threat hunting and proactive cyber defence capabilities.
• Experience implementing automation and optimisation within detection and response environments.
• Understanding of cyber security governance, risk management, regulatory obligations and operational resilience requirements relevant to incident response.

Senior Detection & Response Engineer

SALARY: £92,701 - £109,060

LOCATION(S): Manchester

HOURS: Full time

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.

Benefits

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A generous pension contribution package.
• Discretionary annual performance-related award.
• Private healthcare options.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Access to wellbeing and colleague support programmes.