Lead Detection & Response Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid, with at least two days per week or 40% of the time at an office in Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds or Manchester, United Kingdom

Salary: £92,701–£109,060 per year

Company

hirify.global is a major UK banking organisation focused on helping customers, businesses and communities prosper.

What you will do

• Lead and coordinate cyber security investigations, including analysis, containment, remediation and lessons learned.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers during incidents, investigations, threat-led activities and proactive cyber defence.
• Develop and continuously improve detection and response capabilities to strengthen cyber resilience.
• Act as a technical authority for security engineering, influencing policies, standards, roadmaps and investment decisions.
• Lead, coach and develop Detection & Response Engineers within a high-performing team.
• Participate in an on-call rota.

Requirements

• Strong security engineering capability with experience in security operations, cyber defence, detection and response, or incident response.
• Experience leading, coaching and developing technical colleagues.
• Strong understanding of incident response methodologies, attacker behaviour and cyber attack lifecycles.
• Experience in threat hunting, investigations and cyber defence activities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, risk assessment and decision-making skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience in digital forensics activities and investigations.
• Experience shaping cyber security policies, standards or secure design patterns.
• Experience automating operational processes to improve detection and response effectiveness.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexibility in office attendance and working patterns where reasonable adjustments are required.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Generous pension contribution and private medical benefit.
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
• Wellbeing initiatives, colleague support programmes and ongoing learning and career development opportunities.