Senior SOC Analyst

Job Description Job Title: Senior SOC Analyst Shift Timing- Rotational Work mode- Remote, India Role Overview: Join a highly skilled and motivated team of Cyber Security Professionals tasked with protecting Protera Technologies and its customers. The Senior SOC Analyst role is focused on leading incident response efforts, threat hunting, digital forensics, and proactive security monitoring while providing mentorship and guidance to junior analysts. Leverage a next-generation SIEM, cyber case management, and supplementary tools to investigate, contain, and remediate cyber security incidents. The ideal candidate is driven to learn and grow as the industry evolves and Protera Technologies adapts rapidly. While candidates may not possess every skill in the security analyst spectrum, a desire to learn, adaptability, and expertise in related disciplines are highly valued. Structured training and hands-on experience will support your growth in this complex, fast-paced service provider environment. Responsibilities: - Lead and coordinate Incident Response investigations for Protera Technologies and its customers - Perform detailed analysis of logs and alerts to differentiate true security incidents from benign events - Discover and correlate relationships between seemingly unrelated information to identify threats - Conduct packet analysis of network traffic to obtain corroborating evidence for investigations - Lead incident response calls with internal teams and clients, ensuring clear communication, updates, and coordinated remediation actions - Provide guidance and mentorship to junior analysts on best practices, investigations, and tool usage - Coordinate with internal teams and clients to provide effective incident handling, containment, and remediation support - Continuously improve incident response and security operations procedures - Handle escalated security incidents tools like, SIEM, EDR, ITSM, email, phone, or in-person interactions - Manage security incidents through resolution and escalate or consult with leadership when required - Tune, troubleshoot, and optimize SIEM, EDR, NDR, and other security monitoring systems - Conduct proactive threat hunting and vulnerability assessments to identify emerging risks - Serve as the primary point of contact for clients during critical security incidents, providing status updates, guidance, and recommendations - Document all incident response actions and client communications to ensure audit readiness and post-incident reporting Requirements Qualifications: - Extensive experience reviewing and analysing log data from various network and security devices - Proficient with well-known information security tools for packet capture, network/OS fingerprinting, and communications analysis - Strong familiarity with Windows and Linux operating systems, including command-line operations - Solid foundation in networking fundamentals, including deep knowledge of TCP/IP and other core protocols - Knowledge of common network-based services and client/server applications - Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills - Proven ability to interact with clients professionally during high-pressure situations - Strong problem-solving skills for diagnosing technical issues and mitigating incidents - Ability to manage customer interactions professionally to ensure high satisfaction - Capacity to learn new technologies and concepts quickly - Willingness to work in shift rotations or on-call schedules as needed Preferred skills: - Experience in mission-critical SOC or operations teams - In-depth understanding of exploits, vulnerabilities, network intrusions, adversary tactics, and exfiltration techniques - Hands-on experience with Malware Analysis, Phishing Email Analysis, Log Analysis, and Digital Forensics - Experience with FTK, Redline, EDR tools, and enterprise SIEM platforms - Familiarity with ITSM, IT GRC, and Cyber Case Management tools - Scripting knowledge (Python, Perl, Bash, PowerShell) to automate tasks and enhance SOC capabilities - Previous experience mentoring junior analysts or leading SOC initiatives - Strong client-facing skills and ability to lead incident calls with technical and non-technical stakeholders About Company Protera Technologies (www.protera.com) is an SAP Certified, Global Total IT Outsourcing Provider for SAP-centric organizations founded in the mid-1990s. We have been the SAP-on-cloud pioneer since running the world's first SAP production instance on a public cloud. Today, we manage thousands of SAP and related IT workloads on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Headquartered in Chicago, IL, with offices in Athens, Greece, and Mumbai, India, Protera delivers world-class Managed Cloud and Security Services, providing proactive monitoring, incident response, and threat management to global enterprise clients. Benefits - 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