Information Security Analyst - SecOps Detection

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.

We are about giving customers a new way to spend, save and manage their money while taking better care of the planet which has seen us become a multi-award winning bank that now employs over 2800 across five offices in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Southampton, and Manchester. Our journey started in 2014, and since then we have surpassed 3.5 million accounts (and four account types!)

with 350,000 business customers. We are a fully licensed UK bank but at the heart, we are a tech first company, enabling our platform to deliver brilliant products.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do.

Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you:
From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values:
Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. In Technology, we're asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week.

We're seeking a passionate and skilled Detection Engineer and Threat Hunter to join our growing Security Operations team, and proactively defend Starling's customers, assets, and systems against emerging threats.

Reporting to the Information Security Lead
- Detection, the analyst's primary responsibility will be to proactively identify and defend against potential threats to the bank. You will achieve this by developing, tuning, and maintaining detection rules, conducting intelligence-driven threat hunts, and participating in collaborative defence improvement activities like Purple Teaming to identify and mitigate risks before they impact the bank.

• Detection Engineering
  - Design, build, test, and maintain high-fidelity detection rules and analytics in our SIEM and other security platforms.
• Proactive Threat Hunting
  - Formulate hypotheses and hunt for undetected attacker TTPs across our cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), SaaS, and endpoint environments.
• Purple Team
  - Collaborate with our Adversarial Simulation team in Purple Team exercises to test, validate, and improve detection logic and response.
• Incident Response SME support
  - Act as a Subject Matter Expert during security incidents, providing deep technical analysis and aiding remediation.
• Threat Intelligence integration
  - Integrate and ope rationalise threat intelligence to inform detection strategies and hunting projects.
• Collaboration
  - Work closely with the wider Security Operations team, and other stakeholders to uplift Starling's security posture and improve detective controls.
• Documentation
  - Maintain clear documentation for detection rules, hunting playbooks, and processes.

• 3+ years in a technical security role, such as detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, or threat intelligence.

• Attacker Knowledge:
  Practical experience analysing attacker behavior, with a strong understanding and application of threat analysis models like MITRE ATT&CK to prioritize and enhance detective controls.
• SIEM Expertise:
  Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Google Sec Ops, Elastic,…