SOC Analyst L2

Senior SOC Analyst (L2/L3) Experience: 4-6 years | Department: Infosec Roles and Responsibilities:

• Perform real-time monitoring, security incident handling, analysis, and escalation of security events from multiple log sources.
• Second-level investigation of alerts triggered by security controls such as endpoints, email gateway, antivirus, and firewalls.
• Lead end-to-end incident response: analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post- incident reporting.
• Perform advanced phishing and malware analysis.
• Handle escalations from L1 and stakeholders, and address queries and requests through calls and emails.
• Use the SIEM tool to document security breaches and responses daily.
• Create reports and charts for easy understanding of detected suspicious activity.
• Administer the SIEM platform, including user and role management, license management, health monitoring, and upgrades.
• Onboard log sources from different machines and devices, and troubleshoot log collection and parsing issues.
• Work on the implementation of new systems into the SIEM and troubleshoot servers.
• Maintain and tune DLP policies and incident workflows.
• Manage vulnerability scanning and patch management cycles.
• Create, test, and tune SIEM correlation rules, alerts, and use cases mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Reduce false positives through rule tuning, whitelisting, and threshold optimization.
• Build dashboards, reports, and automated response playbooks.
• Perform threat hunting using logs and threat intelligence to close detection gaps.
• Mentor junior analysts and maintain SOPs and runbooks.
• Work as part of a team to ensure corporate data and technology platform components are safeguarded from known threats.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience with a Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related technical domain from reputed organizations.
• Should have worked on SIEM tools like QRadar, LogRhythm, sentinelone, Log360 (including administration and correlation rule creation) and endpoint security like EDR, XDR (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne).
• Should have knowledge of any DLP solution from any vendor.
• Should have experience writing SIEM queries, regex, and log parsers; scripting in Python or PowerShell is an added advantage.
• Certifications such as CEH, CHFI, GCIH, Security+