SOC Analyst

The SOC Analyst is responsible for maintaining the organization's cybersecurity posture through continuous monitoring, detection, and incident response. Key responsibilities include:

• Monitor and analyze security alerts from SIEM, EDR, NDR, FIM, and Antivirus platforms to detect potential threats, performing correlation and pattern analysis across multiple data sources.
• Execute incident response lifecycle activities including triage, containment, eradication, and recovery following NIST standards, documenting incidents thoroughly with root cause analysis.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance incident response playbooks and runbooks, collaborating to build SOAR playbooks for automated enrichment, containment, and notification workflows.
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments, coordinate remediation with IT teams, and manage security tools like EDR, SIEM, SOAR, FIM, NDR, and Antivirus to ensure operational readiness.

This role creates positive change by strengthening cybersecurity defenses for SAP-centric organizations, protecting sensitive data and systems from evolving cyber threats to ensure business continuity and trust.

Required skills and qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in SOC operations, cybersecurity, or incident response.
• Strong knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, NDR, FIM, and Antivirus/NGAV platforms, with experience in writing playbooks, automating responses, and tuning detection logic.
• Familiarity with incident handling frameworks, threat hunting, digital forensics, and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, NIST IR, and ISO 27001.
• Preferred certifications: CompTIA Security+, CySA+, CEH, Microsoft SC-200, or equivalent, with exposure to tools like Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Cortex XSOAR.

Benefits include:

• Work from Home set-up
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Gratuity, PF, EPS and Bonus, NPS
• Shift Allowances
• On-call Allowance
• Health and wellness Allowances
• Learning and Development Allowances
• No question asked certification policy
• Certification Bounty Bonus

Protera Technologies reimagines how SAP-centric organizations work in the cloud, pioneering SAP and related applications on platforms like Microsoft Azure and AWS since 1998 to make IT smoother, faster, and more enjoyable for clients.