Detection Engineer

Detection Engineer

* Sheffield or London – 1–2 days per week onsite

* Initial 6-month contract

* £600 per day via umbrella

* Inside IR35

We’re working with a leading bank to appoint Detection Engineers to join a growing internal defensive security team.

The team is expanding its dedicated detection capability, moving from detection engineering being a secondary responsibility within the Cloud function to a specialist, full-time discipline. You’ll work as part of a global team across the UK, Poland and Mexico.

The role is focused entirely on defensive security and threat hunting, with an emphasis on building high-quality detections rather than simply increasing volume.

Key responsibilities:

* Develop high-quality detection use cases from external threat intelligence and internal security data

* Analyse intelligence and translate it into effective detections for the organisation

* Use Red Team outputs to identify gaps, understand attack techniques and determine where to detect malicious activity

* Conduct threat hunting and identify opportunities to improve defensive coverage

* Work closely with security and technology teams to understand the environment and optimise detection capability

* Deliver detection engineering through Agile, sprint-based and Scrum ways of working

Requirements:

* 3–5 years’ experience across technology operations, development or security

* Hands-on experience writing and developing security detections

* Strong understanding of threat hunting and defensive security

* Experience working with threat intelligence and translating intelligence into actionable detections

* Experience within a large financial services organisation or similarly complex, highly regulated environment

* Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum delivery environment

* Curious, technically minded and hungry to investigate how attackers operate and how they can be detected

More details available on successful application
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed