Senior Security Operations Engineer

SES Satellites; Chennai District; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in Chennai is seeking a Senior Security Operations Engineer to lead incident response and manage security threats. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in security operations, monitoring, and compliance with a technical degree. This full-time position offers an opportunity to advance the company's information security initiatives and develop comprehensive security analysis skills.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a SOC or similar environment.
• Technical knowledge in networks and applicable software.
• Experience monitoring a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response in response to security events.
• Perform in-depth root cause analysis of security incidents.
• Continuously monitor security technologies and generate alerts.

Skills

Incident response

Security log analysis

Network traffic analysis

Threat detection

Analytical skills

Education

Four Year college degree in a technical field

Tools

SIEM

Firewall

IDS/IPS

Job description

Overview

Senior Security Operations Engineer at SES Satellites. The role focuses on advancing SES’s Information Security threat and compliance program through security monitoring, threat & vulnerability management, and delivering professional reports with findings and recommendations. The Senior Security Operations Engineer is expected to be aware of the enterprise’s security goals as established by policies, procedures, and guidelines and to actively uphold those goals.

Role Description Summary SES’s Senior Security Operations Engineer focuses on advancing SES’s Information Security threat and compliance program by security monitoring, threat & vulnerability management, and delivering professional reports including findings and recommendations. The Senior Security Operations Engineer is expected to be fully aware of the enterprise’s security goals as established by its stated policies, procedures, and guidelines and to actively work towards upholding those goals.

Requisition details

• Requisition Number: 19209
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Location(s): Chennai, IN

Primary Responsibilities / Key Result Areas

• Lead incident response in response to security events and incidents.
• Correlation and trend analysis of security logs, network traffic, security alerts, events, and incidents. Perform in-depth root cause analysis and diligently gather information prior to escalation for future root cause analysis. Event and incident handling consistent with applicable plans and processes.
• Analyze, triage, aggregate, escalate, and report on security events including investigation of anomalous network activity, and respond to cyber incidents within the network environment.
• Continuously monitor security technologies/tool data and network traffic to generate security alerts observed on in-scope networks, systems, or security technologies.
• Rapidly assess network traffic, detect data anomalies, and provide detailed reporting.
• Integrate activities with standard reports, such as security metrics reports.
• Lead team/project meetings and technical meetings appropriate for the content.
• Ensure assigned tasks and projects are completed on schedule.

Competencies

• Strong organizational skills and ability to stay focused while managing multiple tasks concurrently.
• Understanding of current attack tools, tactics, procedures, and how to detect and/or mitigate them.
• Strong critical thinking/analytical skills, creativity, and a proven drive for quality.

Qualifications & Experience

• Must Have
• Four Year college degree in a technical field of study or equivalent work experience
• Technical knowledge and aptitude in networks, network topologies, remote network access, servers, applicable software and troubleshooting techniques required.
• Experience working in a SOC or similar environment.
• Experience with reviewing IDS/IPS, EDR, Firewall and other security/audit logs
• Experience monitoring and analyzing a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) to identify security issues for remediation, and rules tuning.
• Consolidate and conduct comprehensive analysis of threat data from proprietary and open-source resources for potential and known threats and act on identified indicators.
• Nice to Have
• Participates in the planning, design, and implementation of enterprise security architecture.
• Experience with threat and vulnerability management, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and vulnerability mitigation
• One or more of the following security certifications: Security+, CEH, CYSA+, GCIA, GSEC, GCIA, GMON and GCDA
• Experience as a shift lead or supervisor role.

Equal Opportunity

SES and its Affiliated Companies are committed to providing fair and equal employment opportunities to all. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Telecommunications

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