Senior Security Engineer,GIOC

Role description

Role Overview

The Senior Security Engineer owns alerts escalated from Security Engineer and leads investigation on the most complex security events. You perform deep analysis, drive incidents to resolution within defined SLAs, determine root cause and scope, contain and eradicate threats, and deliver detections and fixes that prevent recurrence.

What You Will Do

Escalated Investigation & Incident Response, Containment, Eradication & Root Cause, Major Incident Response & Technical Leadership, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting & Automation, Knowledge, Runbooks & Mentoring, Post-Incident Review & Continuous Improvement

Why It Might Be a Fit

You must be comfortable with a rotational shift and on-call model — including nights, weekends, and holidays — to sustain follow-the-sun coverage. Success is measured by MTTR/MTTC, investigation quality, recurrence reduction, and detection coverage.

Requirements

• Graduate/Engineer in a relevant field (B.E./B.Tech, or equivalent)
• 5-8 years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a SOC, including Senior Security Engineers escalation and incident-response ownership
• Deep hands-on expertise with SIEM, EDR, log analysis, and endpoint/network forensics
• Strong understanding of attacker techniques, the MITRE ATT&CK framework, threat intelligence, and the incident-response lifecycle
• Proven experience leading complex investigations, containment/eradication, and root-cause analysis
• Detection-engineering and automation skills (Python, SOAR playbooks, detection-as-code) and familiarity with ITSM tooling
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical leadership, documentation, and mentoring; willingness and ability to work a rotational 24x7 shift and on-call model, including nights, weekends, and holidays
• Proficient in English verbal and written communication

Benefits

• Medical Insurance stipend paid annually
• 9 Company-Paid Holidays
• Generous Leave Policy + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• Internet reimbursement
• Fitness membership reimbursement
• Company paid Wellable subscription