Job Description

Key Responsibilities

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1. Monitoring & Offense Management

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- Monitor security events and alerts through QRadar dashboards, consoles, and offense queues.
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- Conduct initial and detailed investigation of offenses, determine true/false positives, and escalate as required.
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- Perform log enrichment, event correlation analysis, and offense deep‐dive using QRadar tools.
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2. Investigation & Incident Response

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- Investigate suspicious activities (credential misuse, lateral movement, DNS anomalies, exfiltration, malware behavior).
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- Perform root‐cause analysis (RCA) for confirmed incidents.
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- Document incident timelines, artifacts, and technical findings in SOC case management tools.
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- Coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery steps with relevant teams.
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3. AQL Search & Log Analysis

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- Use AQL (Ariel Query Language) for advanced searches, pivoting, and correlation.
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- Analyze logs from Windows/Linux servers, network devices, EDR, cloud services, and applications.
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- Build actionable dashboards and custom queries to support threat‐hunting and investigations.
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4. Use Case Management & Rule Tuning

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- Review and tune QRadar correlation rules, building blocks, reference sets,



and threat models.
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- Optimize detection rules to reduce false positives and improve alert fidelity.
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- Work with Threat Intelligence team to integrate IOCs, threat feeds, and enrichment sources.
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5. Threat Hunting

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- Conduct proactive hunts using QRadar events, anomalies, traffic patterns, and baselines.
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- Look for MITRE ATT&CK; TTPs such as privilege escalation, persistence, lateral movement, and command‐and‐control communication.
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- Document hunt hypotheses, results, and recommended improvements.
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6. QRadar Administration Support (as needed)

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- Validate log source onboarding and troubleshoot ingestion issues.
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- Ensure log sources are normalized, parsed correctly, and categorized appropriately.
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- Participate in QRadar patching, upgrades, backup/restore tests, and HA validation (if required).
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7. Reporting & Compliance

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- Generate daily, weekly, and monthly security reports.
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- Provide data for compliance audits (ISO 27001, PCI‐DSS, RBI, GDPR, internal governance).
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Maintain all SOC documentation, SOPs, and detection playbooks.

📌 MDR (New Delhi)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 New Delhi