We're Hiring: Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager!
Location: Gurugram, India
Work Mode: Work from anywhere
Role: Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager
What You'll Do:
- Lead the offshore SOC pod across L1 and L2 activities, ensure queue health, review investigation quality, and maintain strong stakeholder alignment with Clearwater Paper security leadership.
- Own daily operational governance including case quality, severity calibration, shift handoffs, SLA adherence, and escalation discipline for major incidents.
- Drive continuous improvement in Splunk ES / Mission Control operations, detection logic review, alert noise reduction, and visibility gap identification.
- Coordinate across CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Qualys, Palo Alto, Dragos, ServiceNow, and automation workflows to improve response effectiveness.
- Translate technical events into concise business risk language for U.S. stakeholders and support weekly service reviews, KPI reporting, and corrective action tracking.
- Promote responsible use of AI-assisted summarization, enrichment, and workflow acceleration within approved guardrails.Tool EnvironmentSplunk ES / Mission Control, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Qualys, Palo Alto, Dragos, ServiceNow, Teams, M365 / Entra context, automation / SOAR capabilities where approved.
Required Experience & Skills
- Strong security operations leadership experience, including direct management of analysts or provider teams in a 24x7 or follow-the-sun model.
- Advanced proficiency in Splunk-based SOC operations and solid working knowledge of endpoint, network, email, and vulnerability telemetry.
- Ability to coach analysts, review investigations, and enforce consistent case quality and operational rigor.
- Strong executive-facing communication and ability to run governance reviews with facts, metrics, and remediation actions.
- Experience working with offshore teams serving U.S.-based stakeholders.