SOC Analyst L2

Senior SOC Analyst (L2/L3)

Experience: 4-6 years | Department: Infosec

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Perform real-time monitoring, security incident handling, analysis, and escalation of security

events from multiple log sources.

• Second-level investigation of alerts triggered by security controls such as endpoints, email

gateway, antivirus, and firewalls.

• Lead end-to-end incident response: analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-

incident reporting.

• Perform advanced phishing and malware analysis.

• Handle escalations from L1 and stakeholders, and address queries and requests through calls

and emails.

• Use the SIEM tool to document security breaches and responses daily.

• Create reports and charts for easy understanding of detected suspicious activity.

• Administer the SIEM platform, including user and role management, license management,

health monitoring, and upgrades.

• Onboard log sources from different machines and devices, and troubleshoot log collection and

parsing issues.

• Work on the implementation of new systems into the SIEM and troubleshoot servers.

• Maintain and tune DLP policies and incident workflows.

• Manage vulnerability scanning and patch management cycles.

• Create, test, and tune SIEM correlation rules, alerts, and use cases mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

• Reduce false positives through rule tuning, whitelisting, and threshold optimization.

• Build dashboards, reports, and automated response playbooks.

• Perform threat hunting using logs and threat intelligence to close detection gaps.

• Mentor junior analysts and maintain SOPs and runbooks.

• Work as part of a team to ensure corporate data and technology platform components are

safeguarded from known threats.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4-6 years of experience with a Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a

related technical domain from reputed organizations.

• Should have worked on SIEM tools like QRadar, LogRhythm, sentinelone, Log360 (including

administration and correlation rule creation) and endpoint security like EDR, XDR

(CrowdStrike, SentinelOne).

• Should have knowledge of any DLP solution from any vendor.

• Should have experience writing SIEM queries, regex, and log parsers; scripting in Python or

PowerShell is an added advantage.

• Certifications such as CEH, CHFI, GCIH, Security+