Job Description

SOC Principal

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HCL Software | Office of the CISO

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Location: India - Bangalore / Noida / Remote

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About the Role

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HCL Software is seeking a SOC Principal to serve as the most senior technical authority inside our

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Security Operations Center. This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who wants

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depth and influence rather than a management span, and it sits at the point where detection quality,

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investigation rigor, and incident command all converge.

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You will set the technical bar for how the SOC detects, investigates, and closes out threats across a

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global multi-cloud and SaaS estate, while our detection platform modernizes and our telemetry

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pipeline is rebuilt.

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You will work alongside SOC Engineering, Vulnerability Management, Red Team, and Product

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Security, and you will be the person the organization escalates to when an incident is genuinely

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ambiguous.

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Key Responsibilities

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Investigation and Incident Response

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• Act as a technical incident commander for severity-1 and severity-2 events, coordinating across

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IT, engineering, legal, communications, and customer-facing teams.

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• Own the deep-dive analysis that junior tiers cannot complete: host and memory forensics,

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cloud control-plane reconstruction, identity abuse chains, and lateral movement tracing.

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• Drive root cause to conclusion and convert every significant incident into concrete detection,

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control, and process changes with named owners.

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• Set and enforce evidence handling, chain of custody, and case documentation standards

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suitable for customer, regulator, and audit scrutiny.

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Detection and Content Engineering

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• Define detection content standards covering test coverage, version control, peer review, and

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promotion through a detection-as-code pipeline.

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• Maintain an ATT&CK-aligned; coverage map, identify blind spots, and prioritize current content

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against th

📌 SOC Principal (Bengaluru)
🏢 HCLSoftware
📍 Bengaluru