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Senior Incident Responder; DFIR

Job in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL8, England, UK
Listing for: Tesco Technology
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-01
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Security Management & Operations, Network Security, Information Security & Data Protection
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 70000 - 110000 GBP Yearly GBP 70000.00 110000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior Incident Responder (DFIR)

Our Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) team
lead the technical investigation and response to security incidents at Tesco.
As part of this team, you’ll work alongside our security operations, threat
intelligence, and security engineering teams to protect, detect, and respond to
security threats across Tesco’s diverse and evolving estate.

You’ll apply your deep technical knowledge and critical
thinking ability to investigate and understand the full extent of security incidents
and threats. Your ability to distil and clearly convey technical information
will allow you to provide the key contextual information to decision makers
that enables them to make informed decisions.

As a senior position, when you’re not investigating
security incidents, you’ll have the freedom to leverage your knowledge and real-world
experience to help improve and automate the team’s technical workflows, working
alongside other teams to help drive innovation across our prevention,
automation, detection and response capabilities. Your status as a senior
incident responder means you’ll serve as a role model for engineers and
analysts across Security Operations.

About the role

Our Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) team
lead the technical investigation and response to security incidents at Tesco.
As part of this team, you’ll work alongside our security operations, threat
intelligence, and security engineering teams to protect, detect, and respond to
security threats across Tesco’s diverse and evolving estate.

You’ll apply your deep technical knowledge and critical
thinking ability to investigate and understand the full extent of security incidents
and threats. Your ability to distil and clearly convey technical information
will allow you to provide the key contextual information to decision makers
that enables them to make informed decisions.

As a senior position, when you’re not investigating
security incidents, you’ll have the freedom to leverage your knowledge and real-world
experience to help improve and automate the team’s technical workflows, working
alongside other teams to help drive innovation across our prevention,
automation, detection and response capabilities. Your status as a senior
incident responder means you’ll serve as a role model for engineers and analysts across Security Operations.

You will be responsible for

§
Investigation and Response: Perform host,
network, and cloud-based forensic analysis to understand the full extent of security incidents and take appropriate response actions to contain, remediate,
and recover.

§
Incident Handling: Support cyber-security
incident managers and decision makers with root cause analysis and formulating recommendations for detection and prevention controls.

§
Technical Project Work: Use your
technical capabilities to enhance our existing processes as well as identifying and working on new methods to deliver DFIR services to the ever-changing technology requirements of the business.

§
Threat Hunting & Detection Engineering: Lead intelligence-based threat hunts to uncover anomalous behaviour in our estate that is representative of the security threats most relevant to Tesco, testing and raising potential detections to contribute to our internal detection engineering programme.

You will need

§ 4+
years of relevant experience.

§ Experience
with responding to security incidents in large scale corporate on-premises and public cloud environments (preferably Microsoft Azure).

§ Experience
with forensic analysis of cyber-security incidents on Windows, MacOS, and Unix operating systems and in-depth understanding of those operating systems.

§ Ability
to perform static and dynamic analysis of suspicious scripts, executables etc.

§ Experience
with a broad range of security technologies such as EDR, SOAR, and SIEM.

§ Ability
to think critically and lead technical investigations.

§ Ability
to handle high pressure situations in a calm, productive, and professional manner.

§ Proficiency
in at least one programming or scripting language.

Whats in it for you?

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we
make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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