SOC Manager

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 & detection lifecycle
  • Collaborate closely with Product & 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 & 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 & 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:
  • Threat modelling
  • Use-case creation
  • Validation & tuning
  • Performance measurement
  • 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 & Advanced Analysis

• • Establish and lead proactive threat hunting programs.
  • Map detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK framework.
  • Perform advanced investigations including:
  • Packet capture analysis
  • Endpoint telemetry analysis
  • 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 & 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:
  • Detection gaps
  • Alert noise
  • Data ingestion latency
  • Query performance issues
  • 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 & incident reduction %, MTTR improvement, automation coverage growth).

5. Client Onboarding & Security Architecture Oversight

• • Lead secure onboarding of customers across:
  • AWS / Azure / GCP
  • On-prem data centers
  • 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 & 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:
  • Advanced detection engineering
  • Threat hunting
  • Forensics
  • Automation
  • Drive hiring, onboarding, and succession planning.
  • Build a high-performance, accountability-driven culture.

7. Metrics, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• • Define and monitor SOC KPIs:
  • MTTA / MTTR
  • False positive ratio
  • Detection accuracy
  • Automation coverage
  • Incident recurrence rate & 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:
  • Splunk / Sentinel / QRadar / Elastic / AlienVault / DNIF / McAfee ESM.
  • Experience implementing SOAR automation.
  • Deep understanding of:
  • Network security (Firewall, IDS/IPS, WAF)
  • EDR/XDR platforms
  • Cloud security (AWS, Azure)
  • Identity & Access Management
  • Strong knowledge of:
  • MITRE ATT&CK & Defend
  • NIST & NIST IR Framework
  • Defense-in-Depth architecture
  • Experience with query writing and log analysis on SIEM technologies.

Preferred Technical & 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:
  • ISO 27001
  • SOC 2
  • PCI-DSS
  • 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.

Skills

• Security Incident Response
• Communication Skills
• Collaboration
• Cybersecurity Strategy
• Certifications Management
• Threat Analysis
• Continuous Learning
• Leadership Team Management
• Policy Development