Detection & Response Engineer

End Date

Monday 28 September 2026

£72,702 - £80,780

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

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£72,702 - £80,780

Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester

Full time

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.

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!

• 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.

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.

• 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…