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.
- 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.
- 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 escalation, persistence, lateral movement, and command‑and‑control communication.
- Document hunt hypotheses, results, and recommended improvements.
- QRadar Administration Support (as needed) - Validate log source onboarding and troubleshoot ingestion issues.
- Ensure log sources are normalized, parsed correctly, and categorized appropriately.
- Participate in QRadar patching, upgrades, backup/restore tests, and HA validation (if required).
- Reporting & Compliance - Generate daily, weekly, and monthly security reports.
- Provide data for compliance audits (ISO 27001, PCI‑DSS, RBI, GDPR, internal governance). Maintain all SOC documentation, SOPs, and detection playbooks.

📌 MDR (Delhi)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 Delhi