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Role: QRadar SOC Analyst
Experience: 11 to 15
Location: Delhi
Role Summary
The QRadar SOC Analyst is responsible for monitoring, triaging, investigating, and responding to security incidents using IBM QRadar SIEM. This role ensures real‑time threat detection, proactive hunting, correlation rule tuning, and end‑to‑end incident lifecycle management. The analyst collaborates with Threat Intelligence, Network, Cloud, and Endpoint teams to maintain a robust cybersecurity posture.

Key Responsibilities
1. Monitoring & Offense Management
Monitor security events and alerts through QRadar dashboards, consoles, and offense queues.
Conduct initial and detailed investigation of offenses, determine true/false positives, and escalate as required.
Perform log enrichment, event correlation analysis, and offense deep‑dive using QRadar tools.
2. Investigation & Incident Response
Investigate suspicious activities (credential misuse, lateral movement, DNS anomalies, exfiltration, malware behavior).
Perform root‑cause analysis (RCA) for confirmed incidents.




Document incident timelines, artifacts, and technical findings in SOC case management tools.
Coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery steps with relevant teams.
3. AQL Search & Log Analysis
Use AQL (Ariel Query Language) for advanced searches, pivoting, and correlation.
Analyze logs from Windows/Linux servers, network devices, EDR, cloud services, and applications.
Build actionable dashboards and custom queries to support threat‑hunting and investigations.
4. Use Case Management & Rule Tuning
Review and tune QRadar correlation rules, building blocks, reference sets, and threat models.
Optimize detection rules to reduce false positives and improve alert fidelity.
Work with Threat Intelligence team to integrate IOCs, threat feeds, and enrichment sources.
5. Threat Hunting
Conduct proactive hunts using QRadar events, anomalies, traffic patterns, and baselines.
Look for MITRE ATT&CK; TTPs such as privilege esca

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