Skills

- Knowledge & Posting Location
- Incident Management
- Threat & Vulnerability Management
- Forensics
- SIEM - Security Information Event Management

Minimum Qualification

- Bachelor of Technology (BTech)

Job Purpose

The SOC L2 Analyst performs advanced investigation and response activities, conducts threat analysis, and supports containment and remediation of cybersecurity incidents. Protect multi-tenant GPU cloud with defense-in-depth, ensuring zero-trust, auditability, and regulatory alignment.

Role DescriptionKey Responsibilities

- Investigate escalated incidents from L1 analysts.
- Conduct detailed log analysis and threat hunting activities.
- Perform malware analysis and forensic investigations.
- Execute containment, eradication, and recovery procedures.
- Correlate events across multiple security platforms.
- Develop detection use cases and SIEM/SOAR correlation rules.
- Investigate Kubernetes, container runtime, and cloud-native security incidents.
- Fine-tune security controls to reduce false positives.
- Lead incident response activities and root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams during investigations.
- Assist Vulnerability Management teams in validating exploitable vulnerabilities and prioritizing remediation.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to L1 analysts.

Implementation

- Enforce IAM/RBAC, least privilege, and network micro-segmentation; secrets/KMS integration.
- Define secure baselines for OS, containers, CUDA drivers, and platform services; supply-chain controls (image signing/SBOM).
- Implement and maintain cloud network security controls such as security groups, firewalls, WAF, DDoS, micro-segmentation, EDR, DLP, PIM/PAM and secure connectivity etc.

Operations

- Continuous vulnerability management, patch cadence, threat detection (EDR/XDR), and audit log integrity, PAM, DDOS, Firewalls & WAF.
- Periodic access reviews, key rotation, and compliance evidence packs.





Reliability & Incident

- Incident response (containment/forensics/eradication); purple-team exercises; tabletop drills.

Data Protection

- Encryption in-transit/at-rest, tenant isolation boundaries, data retention, legal holds, and purge workflows.

Experience & Educational RequirementsQualifications and Experience

- EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: (degree, training, or certification required)

- BE/B-Tech or equivalent with Computer Science or Electronics & Communication

- RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: (no. of years of technical, functional, and/or leadership experience or specific exposure required)

- 4-7 years cybersecurity; robust cloud security, zero-trust, and data privacy in regulated environments.
- Strong expertise in SIEM technologies (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar).
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, CrowdStrike, Sentinel One, or similar EDR tools.
- Knowledge of Azure, AWS, and GCP security monitoring.
- Experience in incident response and digital forensics.
- Understanding of attack techniques, malware behaviour, and threat actor tactics.
- Ability to analyze packet captures and network traffic.
- Knowledge of SOAR platforms and automation workflows.
- Experience with KQL, Python Scripts, or equivalent query languages.
- Participate in shift-based 24x7 SOC operations.

Tools / Tech

- SIEM (Splunk/ELK), EDR/XDR, image scanners (Trivy/Clair), OPA/Gatekeeper, Vault/KMS/HSM, HashiCorp Boundary (or equivalent), Firewalls, WAF, DDOS, ISO AUDITS, VAM, PAM.

Certifications

- CISSP; CISM/CISA; CCSP; ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor, SC-200, SC-300, AZ-500, GCIH, GCIA, CEH, CompTIA CySA+

KPIs

- Mean time to detect/respond, vulnerability backlog burn-down, audit non-conformities, policy violation rate, False Positive Reduction Rate, Automation Coverage (SOAR Playbooks).

Locations

- SOC Engineer (L2) LNT/SE/1862759 IU72-Larsen & Toubro - Vyoma Chennai
- Posted On 18 Sep 2026
- End Date 17 Mar 2027
- Required Experience 4 - 7 Years

📌 SOC Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Larsen & Toubro Infotech
📍 Chennai