Position Summary:
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Project Manager to lead the day-to-day operations of our Security Operations Center. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing a team of analysts, ensuring continuous monitoring, timely response to security incidents, and overall improvement of security posture through proactive threat detection and mitigation.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide the first line supervision to GoR and to Lead and manage the Security Operations Center.
- Develop and administer SOC 2 type II processes and review their application to ensure that SOC's controls, policies, and procedures are operating effectively
- Lead and manage the SOC team including L1, L2, and L3 analysts.
- Oversee real-time monitoring, detection, triage, and response to security threats.
- Drive the development and implementation of incident response plans, playbooks, and workflows.
- Ensure timely closure of alerts and incidents and review escalated cases for resolution quality.
- Coordinate with threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and other security functions for improved visibility.
- Maintain compliance with internal policies, industry regulations, and audit requirements.
- Conduct regular training, drills, and capability building exercises for the SOC team.
- Produce and present daily/weekly/monthly reports to senior management on SOC metrics, KPIs, and incident trends.
- Optimize the use of SIEM, SOAR, EDR, UEBA, TIP, and other tools.
- Act as a primary point of contact during major cyber incidents and coordinate with IT, legal, and business teams.
- Continuously evaluate and enhance detection and response capabilities.
- Primarily responsible for overall security event monitoring, management and response
- Ensure incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring
- Ensure compliance to SLA, process adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives
- Revise and develop processes to strengthen the current Security Operations Framework, Review policies and highlight the challenges in managing SLAs.
- Responsible for team & vendor management, overall use of resources and initiation of corrective action where required for Security Operations Center
- Perform threat management, threat modeling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring
- Creation of reports, dashboards, metrics for SOC operations and presentation to Sr. Mgmt.
- Co-ordination with stakeholders, build and maintain positive working relationships with them
- Produce and review aggregated performance metrics
- Manage and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the SOC, through improvements to each function as well as coordination and communication between support and business functions
- Play a significant role in long-term SOC strategy and planning, including initiatives geared toward operational excellence
Required Qualifications:
- Education:
- B.E./B.Tech/MCA/M.Sc. in Computer Science or Information Technology.
- Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in Security Operations, Threat Detection, or Incident Response.
- Certifications:
- CISSP/CISM/SIEM Certification
