Digital Forensics and Incident Response Service Lead

End Date

Friday 25 October 2024

Salary Range

£66,861 - £74,290

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Service Lead

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office location listed above

About this opportunity
Want to be part of the team that helps to protect Lloyds Banking Group from threats?

The Digital Forensics and Incident Response team (DFIR) is a key component of the Chief Security Office, whose primary role is to ensure the integrity of our corporate network is maintained. Our mission statement is to hunt for unidentified threats, respond to and contain cyber security incidents, and perform forensic analysis to answer the questions no-one else can, all to protect the bank, our colleagues and our customers.

An exciting opportunity has become available to lead one of our services, on the front line of the Group’s response to cyber threats. The team performs threat hunting, cyber security incident analysis and are responsible for containment of security threats to reduce the impact to the Group. Where applicable, they provide in depth analysis of the attack-chain through digital forensics or advanced malware analysis.

As well as being an experienced cyber security engineer and problem solver, you must also be willing to challenge the status quo, trust your instincts, collaborate across a range of teams and influence others when required to mitigate potential risks and threats to the Group.

If this sounds like you, and you are up for a challenging but extremely rewarding role, we would love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

• Leads the service analysing malware from both internal and external sources to find indicators of compromise (IOCs), pre-emptively gather Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) and de-obfuscation methods prior to or during an attack on LBG and distribute these back to security teams, EDR solutions, detection engines and gateways to better protect the Group, it’s colleagues and customers

• Operationally leads and task manages the colleagues aligned to the service, ensuring issues and incidents are managed effectively and appropriately, while also encouraging versatility across the wider team, collaborating and up skilling on areas that colleagues may not be confident in to produce a strong team with a wealth of knowledge.

• Matures and embeds appropriate controls and processes ensuring the service can move faster, safely

• Research, advocate and implement new methodologies/tools, disseminates new process and tools to the teams, to remain prepared

• Lead by example, consistently demonstrating the Group Values and the Leadership Behaviours by being approachable and acting with integrity to build trust and credibility within your team

• Lead informal technical coaching and sharing of knowledge, providing an appropriate level of support for team members from a technical level

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping 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.
 

What you’ll need

• Broad knowledge and experience across the information security domain, including familiarity with incident response, malware analysis and digital forensics and willing to be the SME for the team

• Superb communication skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders if required, as well as explain technical language in an easy-to-understand way

• An inherent drive/hunger to problem solve and understand the true nature of an attack or event, to understand root cause

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, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.