The SOC Manager leads the Security Operations Center's people, processes, and technology to detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats across the organization on a 24x7x365 basis. This role owns the SIEM/SOAR platform strategy, drives proactive threat hunting and intelligence integration, and ensures the SOC operates with robust governance, automation, and continuous improvement. The SOC Manager acts as a key crisis leader during security incidents and serves as a trusted communicator to technical teams and executive stakeholders alike.
Key Responsibilities
Security Operations Leadership
Own and manage 24x7x365 SOC operations, ensuring continuous monitoring, detection, and response coverage across all shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Design and maintain shift schedules, staffing models, and follow-the-sun or on-call rotations to guarantee round-the-clock coverage without gaps.
Lead the SOC's daily operations, including shift coverage, escalation paths, and performance metrics (MTTD, MTTR, alert volume/quality).




Define and continuously improve SOC processes, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.
Set strategic direction for the SOC in alignment with overall security and business objectives.
Incident Response & Crisis Management
Serve as incident commander for high-severity security incidents, coordinating containment, eradication, and recovery.
Maintain and regularly test the incident response plan, including tabletop exercises and post-incident reviews.
Coordinate cross-functional crisis response with IT, legal, communications, and executive leadership as needed.
Threat Detection & Hunting
Direct proactive threat hunting programs to uncover hidden or emerging threats not caught by existing detections.
Continuously refine detection logic and use cases based on the evolving threat landscape and lessons learned from incidents.
SIEM/SOAR Management
Own the SIEM and SOAR platforms end to end, architecture, content development, tunin

📌 Manager - SOC (Bengaluru)
🏢 MRI Software
📍 Bengaluru