SISA Information Security - Security Operations Center Manager - SIEM/SOAR

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

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.
  
  

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.
  
  

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.
  
  

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).
  
  

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.
  
  

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.
  
  

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.
  
  

(ref:hirist.tech)