Job Title: SOC Engineer

- Experience Required: 4 - 6 Years

- Employment Type: Full time, Permanent

- Department: Engineering - Software &
- QA / IT Security

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and technically sound SOC Engineer with 4 to 6 years of experience to join our Cybersecurity Operations team. The ideal candidate will serve as a subject matter expert for our SIEM environment, with strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Sentinel and KQL. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining security runbooks, managing alerts, and fine-tuning threat detection rules to maximize operational efficiency and drastically minimize false positives.

Key Responsibilities

- SIEM Management &
- Optimization: Administer, manage, and continuously optimize the enterprise Microsoft Sentinel environment.

- Detection Engineering: Design, write, and implement complex queries using Kusto Query Language (KQL) to establish strong behavioral baselines and threat hunting rules.

- Runbook &

- Playbook Automation: Create, test,



and update technical security runbooks alongside automated workflows (Logic Apps/Playbooks) to ensure prompt and unified incident responses.

- Alert Tuning &

- False Positive Reduction: Analyze alert trends and systematically fine-tune detection rules to minimize false positives, elevate alert fidelity, and enhance overall SOC productivity.

Required Candidate Profile

- Experience: Minimum 4 to 6 years of solid experience working within an enterprise Security Operations Center (SOC) or Threat Detection team.

- Education: B.E. / B.Tech / BCA / B.Sc in Computer Science, Information Technology.

- Core Skills: Deep, demonstrable expertise with Microsoft Sentinel and advanced query authoring via KQL.

- Process Skills: Proven experience creating and structuring operational security runbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

- Technical Knowledge: Thorough domain knowledge of the Microsoft technology stack, cloud infrastructure security, network protocols, and attack frameworks.

📌 Soc Engineer - Microsoft Sentinel & KQL (Hyderabad)
🏢 Softify Technologies
📍 Hyderabad