Cyber Threat Specialist (Blue Team) - Financial Services - London - Hybrid - Excellent Overall Package The role Join a leading financial services client as a Cyber Threat Specialist (Blue Team) and help strengthen a critical Threat Detection andamp; Response function. You will be a key member of the Threat Detection andamp; Response team, focusing on defensive security across complex, business-critical environments. Working closely with engineering, infrastructure and security teams, you will help design, implement and optimise high-fidelity detections, investigate incidents, and contribute to continuous improvement of cyber defences. What you''ll be doing Deliver hands-on detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, security engineering and threat intelligence activities. Investigate and respond to security incidents across host, identity, email, SaaS and cloud workloads. Use and tune security tooling such as EDR, DLP, SIEM and SOAR to improve detection and response effectiveness. Apply frameworks such as MITRE ATTandamp;CK and the cyber kill chain to map, detect and disrupt attacker tradecraft. Leverage offensive tooling (Kali, Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Bloodhound, Mimikatz, etc.) to understand and defend against real-world attack techniques. Contribute to secure architectures across networks, operating systems and cloud platforms. What we''re looking for Minimum of 3 years'' hands-on experience in at least two of: detection engineering, incident response,