SOC Manager - Remote

Role: SOC_Manager (MDR)

Work Model: Remote (India)

Client: MDR_Service Provider (HQ: Dubai, UAE)

Role Type: Permanent, Full Time

Immediate joiners / 30 days preferred

Salary Range: USD 4000 to 5000 a month

Key Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day MDR SOC operations (24×7), including L2/L3 analysts.

• Enforce investigation methodology, signal-chaining logic, and escalation standards.

• Guarantee accuracy of detections, severity scoring, and incident classification.

• Act as final escalation authority for critical incidents and client-impacting events.

• Drive continuous reduction of noise, false positives, and redundant detections.

• Ensure consistent, high-quality case documentation and client-facing narratives.

• Oversee SOC interaction with the platform outputs (signals, chains, ATHs, incidents).

• Partner with Engineering on detection tuning, content gaps, and platform improvements.

• Lead SOC staffing, rotations, training, and performance management.

• Own SOC KPIs: MTTD, MTTR, SLA adherence, signal quality, analyst efficiency.

• Represent SOC capability during audits, client reviews, and executive briefings.

Required Experience

• 7+ years in SOC / MDR / Blue Team operations.

• 3+ years managing analysts in a managed detection environment.

• Strong hands-on incident response and attacker behavior analysis.

• Experience operating SIEM, EDR, threat intel, and MDR platforms.

• Proven ability to communicate clearly with CISOs and executives.

• Experience in high-trust, client-facing security operations.

What Success Looks Like

• Clients trust detections without second-guessing.

• SOC output is consistent, explainable, and defensible.

• Noise is controlled; real risk is surfaced early.

• Analysts scale without quality degradation.