Senior Security Engineer

Overview

Senior Security Engineer responsible for escalated security investigations and leading incident response for complex security events across SIEM, identity/access, endpoint, and cloud telemetry.

What you'll do

• Own alerts escalated from Security Engineers and drive investigations to closure.
• Perform deep analysis using log correlation, endpoint and network forensics, and threat-intelligence enrichment.
• Lead major-incident/Suspected-breach incident-response coordination for Sev-0/Sev-1 events.
• Determine scope, root cause, and attacker activity; distinguish true positives from benign anomalies.
• Build and tune detections and correlation rules to improve fidelity and reduce false positives.
• Automate triage and response using SOAR playbooks and scripting to reduce manual effort and MTTR/MTTC.

What you'll need

• 5-8 years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a SOC.
• Deep hands-on expertise with SIEM, EDR, log analysis, and endpoint/network forensics.
• Strong understanding of attacker techniques, MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence, and the incident-response lifecycle.
• Proven experience leading complex investigations, containment/eradication, and root-cause analysis.
• Detection-engineering/automation skills including Python and SOAR playbooks.
• Willingness and ability to work rotational 24x7 shift and on-call model including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Graduate/Engineer in a relevant field (B.E./B.Tech or equivalent).

Details

• Location: Chennai.