Senior Detection & Response Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026.
Join one of the UK's largest organizations as a Senior Detection & Response Engineer. In this role, you will be a key player in protecting the organization from cyber threats, leading complex investigations, providing technical leadership, and continuously improving detection and response capabilities. You will also have the opportunity to drive automation and optimization efforts to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of detection and response activities. Enjoy a generous holiday allowance, flexible working options, family leave, health insurance, and more.
Missions
- Lead and coordinate complex cyber security investigations, driving effective analysis, containment, remediation and lessons learned activities.
- Develop and continuously improve detection and response capabilities to strengthen cyber defence outcomes, and lead threat hunting and proactive investigations.
- Act as a technical authority for security engineering, influencing policies, patterns, roadmaps and investment decisions, and drive automation and optimisation opportunities.
Profil recherché
- Stakeholder Management: Ability to communicate clearly with technical specialists, senior leaders and non-technical audiences during cyber incidents and response activities- Security Engineering: Demonstrated experience leading and handling complex cyber security incidents within a Security Operations, Cyber Defence or Incident Response environment
- Investigations: Proven ability to conduct complex investigations, determine root cause, assess the extent of compromise and lead remediation and recovery efforts
- Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound decisions in fast-moving and ambiguous situations
- Collaboration: Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring and guidance while working effectively across technical and business teams
- Technology Intelligence: Deep understanding of attacker behaviours, cyber attack lifecycles, emerging threats and modern cyber defence approaches
- Experience implementing automation and optimisation within detection and response environments
- Experience developing and enhancing threat hunting and proactive cyber defence capabilities
- Understanding of cyber security governance, risk management, regulatory obligations and operational resilience requirements relevant to incident response