Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Analyst in Edinburgh

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

About the role

Salary – up to £47,500 (DOE) + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level – 1 – Permanent

Role Location – Edinburgh

Office Attendance – Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office, 1-2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date – Applications close on 25th March 2026.

We're looking for a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Analyst (known internally as an Information Security Analyst) to join our Insurance Money and Services team. The DLP team helps protect sensitive organisational data from unauthorised access, loss or misuse. They monitor data transfer activities, manage DLP controls and policies, support users in handling data securely and work with Technology to strengthen protections and ensure compliance with internal security standards and regulations.

What you'll be doing:

• Work with 3rd party technology service provider to ensure that DLP monitoring and operational activities are delivered in line with agreed standards and service levels.
• Manage, triaging, and investigating Data Loss Prevention (DLP) incidents across endpoints, email, cloud apps, and collaboration platforms.
• Help increase maturity of the organisation's DLP capability, including improving detection rules and strengthening response workflows.
• Collaborate with wider Security Operations teams to support incident response, threat analysis, and ongoing security monitoring.
• Work closely with business units to educate users, improve data handling behaviour, implement & refine DLP policies & rules and reduce false positives.
• Produce reports, dashboards, and insights on data protection trends, risk patterns, and control effectiveness.

We need you to have:

• Experience working with DLP platforms (e.g., Microsoft Purview DLP, Endpoint DLP, Cloud App Governance, or similar).
• Strong analytical and investigative skills with the ability to interpret alerts, logs, and user behaviour.
• Understanding of information security principles, data classification, compliance requirements, and insider risk concepts.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, especially during incident analysis.
• Experience creating documentation—playbooks, SOPs, user guidance, and incident reports.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to follow and maintain structured processes but also with a curious mind, being able to appropriately challenge and identify opportunities to continuously improve.
• Experience working in a technology environment, working in partnership with business stakeholders.
• A passion for Cyber Security and a drive to learn more about it.

And if you have any of these, even better:

• Experience working in a regulated environment such as insurance or financial services.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel, or SIEM/SOAR tooling.
• Knowledge of KQL, PowerShell, or automation workflows to improve alerting and investigation efficiency.
• Exposure to broader security domains such as identity security, endpoint protection, cloud security, or vulnerability management.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or CIS Controls, particularly around data protection.
• Experience contributing to security programme maturity—optimising controls, supporting audits, or designing new security use cases.

What's in it for you:

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increases to 15% every payday. As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Interviews

We know the importance of balancing work with life's other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we're committed to exploring part-time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation. Interviews are expected to be held on 26th March.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling. Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for. Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome. So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it. Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference. We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them. We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week. Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch-ups, planning meetings and more. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!