Lloyds Banking Group

Junior Detection and Response Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: EdinburghUnited Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £35,340 - £37,200 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
cyber securitythreat detectionsecurity operationssecurity log analysisthreat huntingincident investigationdetection rulesplaybooksthreat modellingTTPs
Soft skills
communication skillsproblem-solvingcritical thinking
Certifications
professional certification