SOC Engineer (L2)

PeopleStrong; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

PeopleStrong is seeking a skilled SOC L2 Analyst to perform advanced investigations, threat analysis, and incident response across multi-tenant environments. You will supervise containment, remediation, and root cause analysis while collaborating with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams.

The role requires strong SIEM experience, cloud security knowledge, and hands-on forensics capabilities, with a focus on zero-trust, auditability, and regulatory alignment.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years cybersecurity experience in cloud security and regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM technologies (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar).
• Hands-on experience with EDR tools (Defender XDR, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne).
• Knowledge of Azure, AWS, and GCP security monitoring.
• Experience in incident response and digital forensics.
• Familiar with KQL and Python scripts.

Responsibilities

• Investigate escalated incidents from L1 analysts.
• Conduct log analysis and threat hunting activities.
• Perform malware analysis and forensic investigations.
• Lead containment, eradication, and recovery procedures.
• Correlate events across multiple security platforms and develop detection use cases.
• Lead incident response activities and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with infra, cloud, and application teams during investigations.
• Provide mentoring to L1 analysts.

Skills

Threat analysis

Incident response

Log analysis

Malware analysis

Digital forensics

KQL / Python

Cloud security

Zero trust

SIEM / SOAR

Team collaboration

Vulnerability management

Education

BE/BTech or equivalent

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

QRadar

EDR/XDR tools

Kubernetes security

Trivy/Clair

Vault/KMS/HSM

Job description

Incident Management Threat & Vulnerability Management Forensics SIEM - Security Information Event Management

Bachelor of Technology (BTech)

Job Description

Job Purpose

The SOC L2 Analyst performs advanced investigation and response activities, conducts threat analysis, and supports containment and remediation of cybersecurity incidents. Protect multi?tenant GPU cloud with defense?in?depth, ensuring zero?trust, auditability, and regulatory alignment.

Role Description

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate escalated incidents from L1 analysts.
• Conduct detailed log analysis and threat hunting activities.
• Perform malware analysis and forensic investigations.
• Execute containment, eradication, and recovery procedures.
• Correlate events across multiple security platforms.
• Develop detection use cases and SIEM/SOAR correlation rules.
• Investigate Kubernetes, container runtime, and cloud-native security incidents.
• Fine-tune security controls to reduce false positives.
• Lead incident response activities and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams during investigations.
• Assist Vulnerability Management teams in validating exploitable vulnerabilities and prioritizing remediation.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to L1 analysts.
• Implementation
  • Enforce IAM/RBAC, least privilege, and network micro?segmentation; secrets/KMS integration.
  • Define secure baselines for OS, containers, CUDA drivers, and platform services; supply ? chain controls (image signing/SBOM).
  • Implement and maintain cloud network security controls such as security groups, firewalls, WAF, DDoS, micro-segmentation, EDR, DLP, PIM/PAM and secure connectivity etc
• Operations
  • Continuous vulnerability management, patch cadence, threat detection (EDR/XDR), and audit log integrity, PAM, DDOS, Firewalls & WAF
  • Periodic access reviews, key rotation, and compliance evidence packs.
• Reliability & Incident
  • Incident response (containment/forensics/eradication); purple?team exercises; tabletop drills.
• Data Protection
  • Encryption in?transit/at?rest , tenant isolation boundaries, data retention, legal holds, and purge workflows.

Experience & Educational Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: (degree, training, or certification required)

BE/B-Tech or equivalent with Computer Science or Electronics & Communication

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: (no. of years of technical, functional, and/or leadership experience or specific exposure required)

• 4–7 years cybersecurity; strong cloud security, zero?trust, and data privacy in regulated environments.
• Strong expertise in SIEM technologies (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar).
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, CrowdStrike, Sentinel One, or similar EDR tools.
• Knowledge of Azure, AWS, and GCP security monitoring.
• Experience in incident response and digital forensics.
• Understanding of attack techniques, malware behaviour, and threat actor tactics.
• Ability to analyze packet captures and network traffic.
• Knowledge of SOAR platforms and automation workflows.
• Experience with KQL, Python Scripts, or equivalent query languages.
• Participate in shift-based 24x7 SOC operations

Tools / Tech
SIEM (Splunk/ELK), EDR/XDR, image scanners (Trivy/Clair), OPA/Gatekeeper, Vault/KMS/HSM, HashiCorp Boundary (or equivalent), Firewalls, WAF, DDOS, ISO AUDITS, VAM, PAM.

Certifications
CISSP; CISM/CISA; CCSP; ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor, SC-200, SC-300, AZ-500, GCIH, GCIA, CEH, CompTIA CySA+

KPIs
Mean time to detect/respond, vulnerability backlog burn?down, audit non?conformities, policy violation rate, False Positive Reduction Rate, Automation Coverage (SOAR Playbooks).