Position: Technical SOC Lead

Work experience: 10+ years

Job location: Mumbai (WFO)

Normal Shift

Job Description

We are seeking a Technical SOC Lead to manage and guide the Security Operations Center (SOC) team in detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity incidents. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader with deep technical expertise in security tools, incident response, and threat analysis.

Mandatory and Must skills:

·      Technical soc lead who can manage a team size of 20 people and having experience in banking sector and can face bank audit.

·      Strong hands-on experience with SIEM tools in IBM QRadar

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day operations of the SOC, ensuring 24/7 security monitoring and incident handling
• Act as technical escalation point for complex security issues and provide guidance to L1/L2/L3 analysts
• Analyze security incidents and lead response efforts including root cause analysis
• Tune and optimize SIEM rules and correlation logic (e.g., Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight)
• Implement and manage threat detection and prevention systems
• Work closely with threat intelligence teams to correlate global threats with internal activity
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and standard operating procedures
• Provide regular status updates and risk analysis to management
• Train and mentor junior SOC staff to build capability and resilience

Technical Skills Required:

• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk, QRadar, LogRhythm)
• Good  knowledge of network protocols, firewalls, IDS/IPS, proxies, endpoint protection
• Familiarity with incident response frameworks (NIST, SANS)
• Ability to analyze logs, packet captures, malware samples, etc.
• Experience with SOAR platforms and automation of security processes
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Scripting knowledge (Python, Bash, PowerShell) is a plus