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Lloyds Banking Group

Junior Detection & Response Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

. Monitoring and analysing security alerts to identify and escalate genuine cyber threats .

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJunior💰 £36,224 - £38,130 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Monitoring and analysing security alerts to identify and escalate genuine cyber threats
  • Carrying out initial triage and investigation, gathering evidence from logs, alerts and enrichment sources
  • Supporting detection engineering by reviewing alert behaviour, tuning existing detections and documenting expected outcomes
  • Using and testing established response playbooks, contributing to improvements where changes are clearly defined
  • Assisting with threat hunting and threat modelling, building practical understanding of attacker techniques and behaviours
  • Learning from real incidents through post incident reviews and continuous improvement activity
  • Working collaboratively with experienced colleagues, maintaining clear investigation notes and sharing knowledge

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Formal training in cyber security, such as a degree, apprenticeship, professional certification or equivalent practical experience
  • Foundational understanding of security operations, threat detection concepts and common tools, such as SIEM platforms
  • Ability to analyse security logs, alerts and events to identify relevant information
  • Awareness of attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)
  • Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
  • Clear communication skills, including the confidence to ask for support and explain findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Willingness to participate in an on call rota and regular weekend working where required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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

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Hard Skills & Tools
cyber securitythreat detectionsecurity operationslog analysisincident responsethreat huntingthreat modellingproblem solvingcritical thinking
Soft Skills
clear communicationcollaborationknowledge sharing
Certifications
professional certificationdegree in cyber securityapprenticeship in cyber security