Senior Detection & Response Engineer

Senior Detection & Response Engineer

Salary range £92,701 - £109,060 Location Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester End date Saturday 17 October 2026 Job type Permanent Posted date

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Senior Detection & Response Engineer

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester

HOURS: Full time

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.

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.

• Ready to make an impact? Apply today.

• Job ID

• 164070

• Agile Working Options

• Job Share; Hybrid Working

• Lead Detection & Response Engineer

• Location Edinburgh

• Salary £92,701 - £109,060

• End Date Saturday 17 October 2026

• Full job description

• Think all banks are the same? You'd be wrong.

• We're a fast paced, forward thinking business that's shaping finance as a force for good.

• A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

• Benefits that work for you

• Our benefits are designed to support you both in and out of work. We offer a competitive pay and benefits package including health insurance, pension, holiday allowance, family leave and flexible working.

Benefits

• Development and progression

• With us, your development is a priority, and we’ll ensure you have the right tools to grow and learn.

• Development and progression

• Our offices

• Our newly renovated offices boast state-of-the-art tech and top-class facilities to help colleagues to connect, collaborate and thrive in an environment so they can do their best work for our customers.

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• At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

• We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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• Benefits that work for you

• From holiday allowance and flexible working options to private health cover and generous pension contributions, we’ve built a benefits package that works for everyone.

Join us and you’ll have access to:

• Pay and Bonus – competitive salaries as well as bonus aligned to group, business area and individual performance.
• Hybrid working giving you the option to work from home for up to three days a week, extended up to five days a week over the summer period.
• Private medical insurance providing all colleagues with access to quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
• Generous pension scheme with employer contributions. The more you save, the more we'll contribute to your plan, starting with 9% if you pay in 3% of your salary, going all the way up to 15% if you contribute 6% or more.
• Financial products and colleague offers – you’ll be able to take advantage of all our financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
• Family leave – from day one you’ll be able to have 52 weeks' leave after your child is born or placed for adoption; six months of that leave is fully paid. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity lea