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Team Lead, Security Operations Center (SOC)

Alithya
Location
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Workplace
Hybrid
Employment
Full Time
Salary
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Posted 7d ago

Your role, your impact

As a Security Operations Center (SOC) Team Lead, you’ll play a key role in protecting the organization against evolving cyber threats. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, you’ll lead day-to-day security monitoring and incident response activities, provide insights to security leadership, and contribute to reducing risk and strengthening the organization's overall cyber defense posture.

Your day-to-day

  • Lead and mentor SOC analysts, providing technical guidance, coaching, and workload coordination;
  • Oversee real-time monitoring of security alerts from SIEM, EDR, and related security technologies;
  • Investigate security incidents using established playbooks and act as the primary escalation point for complex incidents;
  • Ensure accurate documentation of investigations and incident reports;
  • Drive continuous tuning and optimization of SIEM rules, detection logic, and alerting workflows;
  • Maintain SOC dashboards, metrics, and KPIs, reporting trends and risks to make recommendations to leadership;
  • Support incident response exercises and ongoing SOC training activities;
  • Contribute to the improvement of SOC processes, runbooks, and standard operating procedures;
  • Collaborate with IT and cloud teams to ensure security monitoring and logging are integrated into new systems and services.

Keys to your success

  • 7 to 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, or security engineering roles;
  • Strong hands-on experience in SOC operations, threat detection, and incident response;
  • Solid understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, aligned with MITRE ATT&CK;
  • Expertise in security tools including SIEM, EDR, SOAR, log analysis, and network security technologies;
  • Demonstrated leadership experience, including team leadership, shift lead, coaching, or mentoring responsibilities;
  • Ability to analyze complex security events and communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders;
  • Strong problem-solving skills and sound judgement to handle high-severity incidents;
  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals, ISO 27001 controls framework, and common threat vectors.

Extra edge

  • Experience securing cloud environments such as AWS and/or Azure;
  • Relevant security certifications such as Security+, GCIH, GCIA, or CISSP;
  • Experience contributing to SOC maturity initiatives, automation, or detection engineering improvements.

Language skills

  • English: Proficient

Skills

  • SIEM
  • EDR
  • ISO 27001
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Security+
  • CISSP

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