Senior SOC Engineer

Security Monitoring & Incident Response

• Security incident investigations and provide technical support.
• Perform real-time monitoring of SIEM, XDR, NDR, OT and cloud security platforms.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and document lessons learned.
• Coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery actions.
• Ensure adherence to defined SLAs and KPIs for incident handling.

Detection Engineering & Use Case Management

• Develop and tune SIEM/XDR correlation rules aligned with MITRE ATT&CK.
• Reduce false positives and improve detection coverage.
• Implement advanced use cases for insider threats, data exfiltration, ransomware, and APT activities.
• Conduct log source onboarding, parser development, and normalization.
• Periodically review and optimize alert thresholds and detection logic.

Vulnerability Management

• Lead end-to-end vulnerability management lifecycle (discovery, assessment, prioritization, remediation validation).
• Correlate vulnerability data with threat intelligence and exploitability context.
• Conduct risk-based vulnerability prioritization using CVSS, business impact, and asset criticality.
• Validate remediation effectiveness through rescans and penetration testing support.
• Prepare executive dashboards highlighting risk exposure and remediation trends.

Threat Hunting & Threat Intelligence Integration

• Perform proactive threat hunting using hypothesis-driven methodologies.
• Integrate threat intelligence feeds into SIEM/XDR platforms.
• Track emerging TTPs and adjust detection strategies accordingly.
• Conduct adversary simulation validation exercises.
• Share actionable intelligence with internal stakeholders

Reporting & Stakeholder Management

• Critical/High vulnerability tracking
• Vulnerability aging & SLA breach reporting
• Remediation status (open vs. closed tracking)
• Monthly trend & risk analysis reporting
• Exploitable / high-risk vulnerability reporting
• Internet-facing & asset coverage reporting
• Patch compliance & validation reporting
• Exception / risk acceptance reporting
• Audit & compliance evidence reporting

Qualification-

• 8+ of experience in IT Security Systems and Information Security.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer science or related field.
• Certification: any one Mandatory

Qualys Certified Specialist – Vulnerability Management (VMDR)

Skillset

• Hands-on expertise in SIEM, XDR/EDR, NDR, SOAR, vulnerability management, and cloud security monitoring.
• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, threat hunting, malware analysis, and log correlation.
• Proven experience managing the full vulnerability management lifecycle with risk-based prioritization.
• Ability to translate technical findings into business risk and support risk assessments, control gap analysis, and risk treatment planning.
• Experience in SOC build, use case tuning, automation, and continuous SOC maturity improvement.
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks and regulatory requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST CSF).
• Excellent analytical, communication, reporting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Vulnerability Management
• Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Acunetix, Burp Suite Scanner
• SIEM Management (log analysis, correlation rules, dashboards)

• Network Traffic Analysis (NDR, Firewall, IDS And IPS)

• Malware Analysis (Basic static/dynamic analysis)
• Basic Scripting (PowerShell / Python / KQL / SPL)