Junior Detection & Response Engineer

• JOB TITLE: Junior Detection & Response Engineer
• SALARY: £36,224
• LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester or Bristol  
• HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours a week. Including a rota for weekend working.  
• WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity  

Start your cyber career protecting millions of customers while helping build the bank of the future. As a Junior Detection & Response Engineer in Lloyds Banking Group’s Cyber Defence Centre, you’ll learn hands‑on how to spot, investigate and respond to real cyber threats, supported by experienced engineers who will coach you to succeed. From analysing alerts and tuning detections to learning from live incidents, you’ll build the skills, confidence and judgement needed for a rewarding career in cyber security—while being part of a team that’s innovative, collaborative and committed to putting customers first.

You’ll play a hands on role in protecting the organisation by helping identify suspicious activity, understand incidents, and contribute to an effective incident response through:

•            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

This role offers early responsibility, structured support and exposure to real world cyber defence—building the skills, judgement and confidence needed for a long term career in security operations.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you’ll need

The strongest candidates bring curiosity, sound judgement and a genuine willingness to learn, as well as:

•            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

 About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• 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

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours.

 Join us and grow with purpose.

(Please note our roles can generate a considerable amount of interest and close early so don't miss out on this opportunity to apply today.)