Senior Detection & Response Engineer

Overview

In this role you defend a major UK financial services organisation against evolving cyber threats. You apply deep detection and response expertise to shape security capabilities and influence technical decisions. You lead complex investigations, drive containment and remediation, and advance proactive cyber defence. You work with engineers and senior technical colleagues to strengthen resilience in a dynamic threat landscape. This is a hands-on, impact-focused senior contributor role with opportunities to mentor and shape security strategy.

Pay / Benefits

• 30 days' holiday
• bank holidays
• pension contribution package
• private healthcare options
• flexible and hybrid working
• wellbeing and colleague support programmes

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate complex security investigations, driving analysis, containment, remediation and lessons learned.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance during incidents and threat-led activities.
• Develop and continuously improve detection and response capabilities.
• Lead threat hunting, proactive investigations and cyber defence activities.
• Act as a technical authority for security engineering, influencing policies and roadmaps.
• Drive automation and optimisation to improve effectiveness and efficiency of detection and response.

Key requirements

• Experience leading and handling complex cyber security incidents within Security Operations, Cyber Defence or Incident Response.
• Proven ability to conduct complex investigations, determine root cause and lead remediation and recovery.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for fast-moving, ambiguous situations.
• Deep understanding of attacker behaviours, cyber attack lifecycles, and modern defence approaches.
• Experience collaborating across technical and business teams with effective stakeholder communication.
• Ability to communicate with technical specialists, senior leaders and non-technical audiences during incidents.

• collaboration
• stakeholder communication
• mentoring and guidance
• Security Operations / Incident Response
• Investigation and root-cause analysis
• Threat hunting and proactive cyber defence

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