Google SecOps Engineer

Virtusa; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa is seeking a senior Google SecOps engineer to lead end-to-end SecOps engineering, focusing on Chronicle, GTI, and case management. You will design data ingestion from multiple sources, build robust log pipelines, and develop parsers and UDMs to support detection and response across the security stack.

The role requires hands-on experience with SIEM, playbooks, dashboards, and reports, plus scripting (Python) to automate tasks and improve scalability.

Qualifications

• End-to-end experience in Google SecOps engineering with Chronicle and GTI platform management.
• Deep expertise in all modules of Google SecOps, GTI and case management.
• Design and implement Google SecOps data ingestion from diverse sources and integration/normalization.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of Google SecOps data ingestion pipelines.
• Architect/maintain log ingestion pipelines for diverse sources with normalization and parsing.
• Develop and maintain parsers, UDMs, and custom detection logic.
• Create playbooks, detection rules, dashboards, and reports for threat detection.
• Automate SIEM tasks, workflows, and integrations using Python.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to fine-tune log sources, parsers and rules.
• Develop high-fidelity alerts and SOAR playbooks for incident response.

Skills

Google SecOps

Google Chronicle

Threat intelligence

Case management

Log ingestion pipelines

Data normalization

Custom parsers

Playbooks

Detection rules

Dashboards & reporting

Python scripting

SOAR playbooks

Incident response

Alert tuning

Engineering collaboration

Tools

BindPlane

Job description

• Should have end to end experience [SME] in Google SecOps engineering with Google Chronicle, Google Threat Intelligence platform management experience.
• Should have deep expertise in all modules of Google SecOps, GTI and case management.
• Lead the design and implementation of Google SecOps data ingestion from diverse sources and using various mechanisms for integration and normalization of logs.
• Architect and maintain robust log ingestion pipelines from diverse log/data sources, ensuring comprehensive data collection, normalization, and parsing.
• Should have high proficiency and technical knowledge on Bindplane agents and its management components.
• Should have practical & technical experience in building SecOps log forwarders and end to end management of the component.
• Should be an expert in building UDMs in Google SecOps and creation of custom parsers where required for log sources.
• Should have good practical experience in developing and implementing playbooks, custom detection rules, dashboards and reporting.
• Automate SIEM tasks, workflows, and integrations using scripting languages (e.g. Python) to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Create, optimize response workflows, improve threat detection capabilities, and provide expert-level support during security incidents.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to fine-tune log sources, parsers and detection rules to improve alert fidelity.
• Design, develop, implement, and optimize advanced correlation rules, use cases, and detection logic within the enterprise SIEM platform.
• Develop and refine high-fidelity security alerts, dashboards, and reports to enhance threat identification, reduce false positives, and provide actionable insights.
• Design and implement solutions to handle alert fatigue encountered in SIEM correlation.
• Develop SOAR playbooks to provide case handling and Incident response as per triage needs.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive SIEM documentation, including system architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, log source configurations, alert rationale.
• Contribute to the long-term vision and roadmap for SIEM and threat detection capabilities. Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in existing detection strategies and recommend solutions.