Security Detection & Response Specialist

Job Description:

Job Title:

Security Detection & Response Specialist Corporate

Title:

Up to Assistant Vice President

Location:

Chester Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

Role

Description:

We are seeking a motivated and analytically driven Security Detection & Response Analyst (SDR) to join the GIS Monitoring and Triage team. This role supports cybersecurity operations across threat detection, investigation, response, and continuous service improvement.

The ideal candidate will have security practitioner experience with strong analytical aptitude and foundational technical skills, who contributes to the detection and response lifecycle by supporting investigations and response activities under guidance.

This role focuses on developing the ability to analyse security events, build contextual understanding of threats, and progressively operate with increasing independence across multiple security domains. The analyst will work alongside experienced practitioners to validate detections, investigate events, and execute response actions while building foundational skills in automation, orchestration, and AI-driven technologies.

Working Pattern:

This is a full-time role (40 hours per week), with standard working hours of 7:00AM to 6:00PM 4 days per week (Sunday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Saturday) to align with the nature of the support provided by the team. Flexibility may occasionally be required to support business, operational, or project deliverables.

Responsibilities:

Support the detection and response lifecycle (detect investigate respond improve) by triaging alerts and analysing logs and telemetry from multiple sources to assess potential security events

Correlate and analyse data across endpoint, identity, network, and application sources to develop context and determine whether activity is benign or suspicious

Assist in the investigation of security events by applying structured, hypothesis-driven analysis and escalating complex or high-risk findings to more senior analysts

Perform guided response activities under supervision, including alert enrichment, containment support, documentation, and coordination with more senior team members during active investigations

Validate alerts and contribute to improving detection fidelity by identifying false positives and providing feedback to enhance detection logic and coverage

Contribute to the development and refinement of investigation guides, runbooks, and playbooks, while learning to leverage automation, SOAR workflows, and AI-assisted tools to improve efficiency

Identify gaps in telemetry, monitoring, or processes and escalate improvement opportunities to support continuous enhancement of detection and response…