Hybrid Junior Detection and Response Engineer

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: Junior Detection and Response Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: £35,340 - £37,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About the role

• Junior Detection & Response Engineer applying cyber security expertise to safeguard systems at Lloyds Banking Group. Collaborating with a proactive team to respond to cyber threats and improve security measures.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security alerts and events, identifying and calling out potential threats
• Conduct initial investigation and triage of cyber incidents, with support from senior team members
• Assist in maintaining and tuning detection rules and playbooks
• Support proactive threat hunting and contribute to threat modelling activities
• Participate in post-incident reviews and support ongoing improvement
• Collaborate with colleagues to solve problems and share knowledge

Requirements

• Formal training in cyber security (e.g. degree, apprenticeship, professional certification, or equivalent practical experience)
• Understanding of threat detection concepts, security operations, and common tools (such as SIEM platforms)
• Ability to analyse security logs and events
• Familiarity with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Good communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
• Willingness to join an on-call rota and regular weekend working

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 24 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies