Role Overview :

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically strong SOC Manager to lead and evolve our Security Operations Center into a mature, engineering-driven, and outcome-focused capability in the AI driven world.

This role requires a hybrid leader who can :

- Drive 24x7 SOC operations excellence

- Own SIEM/SOAR engineering and detection lifecycle

- Collaborate closely with Product and Development teams

- Influence platform enhancements through operational intelligence

- Build and mentor high-performing security teams

- Highlight risks and gaps in logging methodologies

- Improve security posture across multi-tenant cloud and on-prem environments

Key Responsibilities :

1. SOC Operations Leadership and Incident Governance :

- Lead 24x7 SOC operations including detection, triage, escalation, containment, and recovery.

- Serve as final escalation point (L3/L4) for complex and high-severity incidents.

- Define and enforce incident response lifecycle aligned with NIST, ISO 27001, and MITRE ATT&CK.

- Ensure adherence to SLA / OLA targets (MTTA, MTTR, containment time).

- Conduct executive-level incident briefings and publish detailed RCA reports.

- Ensure compliance with organizational security policies and audit requirements.

- Oversee case quality assurance and investigation standards.

2. SOC Engineering and Detection Engineering :

- Own SIEM/SOAR architecture optimization and performance tuning.

- Lead log onboarding strategy (cloud, on-prem, hybrid environments).

- Ensure proper log normalization, parsing, enrichment, and correlation.

- Drive full detection use-case lifecycle :

1. Threat modelling

2. Use-case creation

3. Validation and tuning

4. Performance measurement

5. Decommissioning of ineffective rules

- Reduce alert fatigue through risk-based alerting, contextual enrichment, and behavioural analytics.

- Implement detection-as-code practices with version-controlled rule management.

- Ensure high ingestion performance and scalable log retention strategies.

3. Threat Hunting and Advanced Analysis :

- Establish and lead proactive threat hunting programs.

- Map detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK framework.

- Perform advanced investigations including :

1. Packet capture analysis

2. Endpoint telemetry analysis

3. Log correlation across multiple data sources

- Integrate threat intelligence feeds and manage IOC lifecycle.

- Identify emerging attack patterns and update detection coverage accordingly.

4. Product Engineering and Platform Enhancement Ownership :

- Act as the primary SOC liaison for Product and Engineering teams.

- Translate operational pain points into structured enhancement requirements.

- Maintain and prioritize a backlog of platform improvements.

- Provide structured feedback on :

1. Detection gaps

2. Alert noise

3. Data ingestion latency

4. Query performance issues

5. UX inefficiencies impacting analysts

- Participate in sprint planning and architecture discussions and provide inputs for enhancements.

- Be part of pilot validation of new features prior to production release.

- Quantify impact of enhancements (false positive and incident reduction %, MTTR improvement, automation coverage growth).

5. Client Onboarding and Security Architecture Oversight :

- Lead secure onboarding of customers across :

1. AWS / Azure / GCP

2. On-prem data centers

3. Hybrid architectures

- Conduct log gap assessments and telemetry validation.

- Align detection coverage to client risk profiles.

- Participate in customer governance calls and QBRs.

- Provide architectural recommendations to improve customer security posture.

6. Team Leadership and Capability Development :

- Lead, mentor, and manage L1/L2/L3 analysts.

- Establish skill matrix and structured career progression roadmap.

- Conduct periodic case audits and performance reviews.

- Develop training programs in :

1. Advanced detection engineering

2. Threat hunting

3. Forensics

4. Automation

- Drive hiring, onboarding, and succession planning.

- Build a high-performance, accountability-driven culture.

7. Metrics, Reporting and Continuous Improvement :

- Define and monitor SOC KPIs :

1. MTTA / MTTR

2. False positive ratio

3. Detection accuracy

4. Automation coverage

5. Incident recurrence rate and reasoning

- Publish monthly executive dashboards.

- Conduct quarterly SOC maturity assessments.

- Drive continuous improvement roadmap aligned with business growth.

Mandatory Technical Skills :

- 10 - 12 years of cybersecurity experience.

- Minimum 4 - 5 years in SOC Lead / SOC Manager role.

- Strong hands-on experience in at least one SIEM platform :

1. Splunk / Sentinel / QRadar / Elastic / AlienVault / DNIF / McAfee ESM.

- Experience implementing SOAR automation.

- Deep understanding of :

1. Network security (Firewall, IDS/IPS, WAF)

2. EDR/XDR platforms

3. Cloud security (AWS, Azure)

4. Identity and Access Management

- Strong knowledge of :

1. MITRE ATT&CK and Defend

2. NIST and NIST IR Framework

3. Defense-in-Depth architecture

- Experience with query writing and log analysis on SIEM technologies.

Preferred Technical and Engineering Skills :

- Scripting (Python / PowerShell / Bash) would be added advantage.

- Exposure to DevSecOps environments.

- Knowledge of container and Kubernetes, cloud security.

- Data analytics for anomaly detection.

- Familiarity with compliance frameworks :

1. ISO 27001

2. SOC 2

3. PCI-DSS

4. HIPAA

Certifications (Preferred) :

- CISSP / CISM

- CEH

- CompTIA Security+

- GIAC Certifications (GCIA / GCIH / GCED)

- Cloud Security Certifications (AWS / Azure / GCP/ Oracle)

Leadership Competencies :

- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management.

- Ability to manage high-pressure incidents.

- Strategic thinking with operational excellence.

- Engineering mindset with product-oriented thinking.

- Strong documentation and governance discipline.

Work Model :

- Mandatory 5-day work from office (Bangalore or Mumbai).

- On-call availability during major incidents or IR situations.