Junior Detection & Response Engineer
| Posting date: | 06 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £35,340 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 January 2026 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH11 4DT |
| Company: | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 149622_1767707908 |
Summary
- JOB TITLE: Junior Detection & Response Engineer
- SALARY: £35,340
- LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds or Manchester.
- HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week. This position will involve participation in an on-call rotation.
- Our work style is hybrid. This means spending at least two days per week at one of our office sites. This equals 40% of our time.
About this Opportunity
As a Junior Detection & Response Engineer, you'll apply your cyber security training to help safeguard the organisation. You'll work alongside experienced engineers, contributing to the detection and response to cyber threats while continuing to build your technical expertise. This role presents an outstanding opening to engage with a proactive team dedicated to securing our systems and data from evolving threats.
What you'll do:
- 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
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're crafting finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. Our dedication to innovation and excellence ensures that we compete at the highest level and achieve our ambitious goals.
What you'll need
- 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
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. We developed a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. This is 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
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
(Please note our roles can generate a considerable amount of interest and can close early so don't miss out on this opportunity to apply today.)
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