SOC Incident Response Manager/SOC Operations

Overview:

A SOC (Security Operations Centre) Incident Response Manager is responsible for overseeing the detection, investigation, and resolution of security incidents within an organization. This role ensures that the SOC operates efficiently and is prepared to respond to a wide range of cyber threats. The manager leads the incident response team, coordinates with other departments, and develops strategies to enhance the organization's security posture.

Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee SOC Operations: Manage the day-to-day activities of the SOC, ensuring effective monitoring, detection, and response to security incidents
- Incident Management: Lead the response to security incidents, including containment, investigation, eradication, and recovery efforts

• Root Cause Analysis: Conduct thorough analyses of incidents to determine their root causes and recommend follow-up actions to prevent recurrence
- Develop Playbooks: Create and refine incident response playbooks, detection rules,



and automation processes to improve SOC efficiency
- Team Leadership: Hire, train, and mentor SOC analysts and incident responders, ensuring the team is prepared for emerging threats
- Cross-Department Coordination: Work closely with IT, Legal, Communications, and other departments.
- Security Event Analysis & Investigation
- Lead the analysis and investigation of information security events using tools such as SIEM; SOAR; UEBA; Threat Intel; EDR; Email; Network; Identity; and Cloud Security to detect; verify; and respond to cyber threats. Perform in-depth analysis on malware and other malicious code identified through SOC tools. o Triage, investigate, and resolve security incidents, including tackling backlogs of security tickets as needed.
- Incident Response o Lead Incident Response (IR) and Incident Management (IM) activities detection, response, containment, eradication, and recovery. o Document and report on security incidents, findin

📌 Soc Analyst (Chennai)
🏢 Hexaware Technologies
📍 Chennai