- 12-hour shifts:
- Rotation: Work 2 Days Rest 2 Days Work 3 Days
- Supports 247 SOC operations
The SOC Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the security monitoring platforms, tools, and processes that underpin a high-availability Security Operations Center (SOC). This role ensures the reliability, performance, and effectiveness of security technologies used to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats across multiple customer environments.
Working closely with SOC Analysts, Incident Responders, and platform owners, the SOC Security Engineer develops detection use cases, fine-tunes alerting logic, automates operational workflows, and ensures high-quality log ingestion across all integrated systems. The role also plays a key part in on-boarding new customers, integrating data sources, and maintaining operational documentation and run books.
This position is critical to supporting a 24/7 MSSP SOC environment, driving continuous improvement, platform stability, and alignment with industry best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain SOC security platforms and integrations, including SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, and log collection solutions
- Develop and optimize detection use cases, correlation rules, and alerting logic to improve threat detection and reduce false positives
- Ensure log ingestion quality, normalization, and coverage across all customer environments
- Automate SOC workflows, enrichment, and response actions to improve operational efficiency
- Support on-boarding of new customers, including data source integration, validation, and tuning
- Collaborate closely with SOC Analysts and Incident Responders to support investigations and incident response activities
- Maintain and continuously improve SOC documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures
- Monitor platform health, performance, and availability to ensure uninterrupted 24/7 SOC operations
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives aligned with security best practices and evolving threat landscapes
Qualifications & Requirements:
- Proven experience working as a SOC Engineer or in a similar security engineering role
- Hands-on experience with SOC technologies such as SIEM, EDR, log management, and vulnerability management platforms
- Strong understanding of security monitoring, detection engineering, and SOC operations
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure, 24/7 operational environment
- Excellent time management, multitasking, and prioritization skills
- Strong attention to detail with a high commitment to quality and accuracy
- Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical and operational teams
Preferred Attributes:
- Experience working in an MSSP or managed SOC environment
- Exposure to automation, scripting, or SOAR platforms
- Familiarity with security frameworks and best practices (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, NIST)
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EA Licence No.:18S9405 / EA Reg. No.:R1330864
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