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Tier-1 employer, metro location, and mid-level generalist SOC profile create high candidate competition.
Cybersecurity SOC skills transfer across industries but require domain knowledge and certifications, so medium sensitivity.
Explicit years, mandatory SOC experience and required certifications make shortlisting highly strict.
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Manage 24x7 threat monitoring, detection, and incident response, including alert triage, incident validation, and escalation per SOPs.
Analyze suspicious, malicious, or abnormal behaviors and perform post-incident analysis to reduce Mean Time to Detection and Response (MTTD & MTTR).
Develop and maintain incident management policies and preserve security incident artifacts for forensic purposes ensuring adherence to SLAs and KPIs.
2-5 years of relevant experience in SOC, Incident Management, Incident Response, Threat Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, or related fields.
Mandatory certifications: one of Certified SOC Analyst (EC-Council), CHFI (EC-Council), CEH (EC-Council), CompTIA Security+, CompTIA CySA+, GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), or equivalent.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field; B.Tech, MCA, MBA with IT background also acceptable.
Product certifications on SOC security tools (SIEM, Vulnerability Management, DAM, UBA, SOAR, NBA) preferred but not mandatory.
Experienced in SOC operations with a technical focus on incident validation, triage, and threat hunting under SLA/KPI constraints.
Pragmatic operator comfortable with creating and maintaining policies, performing forensic preservation, and reducing detection and response times.
Skilled in working with SOC security products such as SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk) and automation for efficient security incident handling.