Job responsibilities:
- Monitor, analyze, and interpret security/system logs for events, operational irregularities, and potential incidents, and escalate issues as appropriate
- Responsible for monitoring, detection of analysis through various input tools and systems (SIEM, IDS / IPS, Firewalls, EDR, etc.)
- Conduct basic red team exercises to test the effectiveness of preventive and monitoring controls
- Provides support for complex system/network exploitation and defense techniques to include deterring, identifying, and investigating system and network intrusions
- Support malware analysis, host and network, log analysis, and triage in support of incident response
- Maintaining and improving the security technologies deployed, including creating use cases, customizing or better configuring the tools based on past and current threats
- Monitoring threat/vulnerability landscape, security advisories, and acting on them as appropriate
- Continuously monitors the security alerts and escalation queue, triages security alerts
- Monitoring and tuning SIEM (content, parsing, maintenance)




- Monitoring Cloud infrastructure for security-related events
- Delivers scheduled and ad-hoc reports
- Develop and coach L1 analysts
- Author Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training documentation
- Work the full ticket lifecycle; handle every step of the alert, from detection to remediation
- Generates end-of-shift reports for documentation and knowledge transfer to subsequent analysts on duty
- Perform threat-intel research, learn current attack patterns, actively participate in security forums.

Job specifications:

Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or closely related coursework in technology development disciplines
- Certifications like CISSP, CEH, CISM, GCIH, GCIA are desirable
- Experience with the following or related tools: SIEM Tools such as Splunk, IBM QRadar, SecureOnix; Case Management Tools such as Swimlane, Phantom, etc.; EDR tools such as Crowdstrike,

📌 NopalCyber- SOC Sr. Analyst (Hyderabad)
🏢 NextHire
📍 Hyderabad