SOC Engineer - 3

Detection Engineering, Incident Leadership & Operational Excellence

Location: Bangalore (Work From Office)

Reports to: CISO

Cashfree Payments operates mission-critical payment and API infrastructure under
RBI and

PCI-DSS oversight. Our setting processes high-volume financial transactions
and

demands high-fidelity detection, rapid response, and operational resilience.

We are building an automation-driven SOC designed to scale beyond traditional
monitoring

models.

Role Summary

The SOC Engineer - 3 is a senior, hands-on technical expert pivotal in
accelerating the defensive posture and operational maturity of the Cashfree
Payments SOC. This role moves beyond traditional monitoring, focusing instead on
Detection Engineering, Incident Response

Leadership, and operational scaling within our high-volume, regulated Fintech
environment.

We are looking for a system-thinker and builder who can autonomously architect
scalable, automation-driven security solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Detection and Threat Engineering

● Architect, develop, implement,



and continually tune detection rules and
correlation logic across SIEM and EDR platforms.

● Proactively identify and remediate detection gaps, mapping coverage to the
MITRE

ATT&CK; framework and leveraging threat intelligence, with a special focus on
cloud (AWS), containerized (Kubernetes), and payment systems.

● Implement advanced contextual alerting and enrichment strategies to
drastically reduce false positive rates and combat alert fatigue.

● Conduct proactive, hypothesis-driven hunting exercises across diverse
telemetry sources (cloud, network, endpoint) to uncover covert threats.

Incident Response Leadership & Handling

● Function as the primary technical lead for high-severity and complex security
incidents, driving effective containment, eradication, and recovery strategies.

● Execute in-depth log analysis, digital forensics triage, and timeline
reconstruction to determine the root ca

📌 SOC Engineer 3 (Bellandur)
🏢 Cashfree Payments India Private
📍 Bellandur