Assistant Manager - Cyber Security Operations

Role overview

Minimum qualification

• Bachelor of Technology (BTech).

Skills required

• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, log analysis, event correlation, alert investigation, and incident validation.
• Experience in threat hunting, detection engineering, use-case development, and threat intelligence-driven security monitoring.
• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, cyber-attack techniques, IOCs, IOAs, and adversary TTPs.
• Experience in incident triage, investigation, root cause analysis, containment, remediation, and post-incident review.
• Hands-on knowledge of SOAR platforms, workflow automation, incident response playbooks, and security orchestration.
• Understanding of endpoint, network, identity, cloud, email, and application security monitoring, including SIEM/XDR tuning and optimization.
• Analytical, documentation, reporting, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills; knowledge of frameworks such as NIST, CIS, and ISO 27001.

Job responsibilities

• Act as the technical SME for SIEM operations, threat hunting, and SOC maturity enhancement initiatives.
• Investigate escalated security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and support incident response, containment, and remediation.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting and leverage threat intelligence to identify, analyze, and mitigate emerging cyber threats.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain SIEM detection use cases, correlation rules, dashboards, reports, and monitoring coverage.
• Ensure effective security monitoring through SIEM/XDR tuning, log source validation, visibility gap assessment, and detection improvement.
• Coordinate with MSSP, Incident Response teams, and internal stakeholders on investigations, escalation management, remediation, and SLA adherence.
• Support SOC governance, reporting, automation initiatives, analyst mentoring, cyber drills, audits, and continuous improvement of security operations.