Cyber Security Analyst - Contract

• Job Location: Anywhere from India
• Work Model: Remote
• Candidate Expectations
• Total Experience and Relevant Experience: 5 to 8 years
• Candidate Location: Anywhere from India
• Skills Mandatory: Security monitoring, alert triage, incident response ,root cause analysis; SIEM, EDR/XDR, threat detection ,threat hunting, phishing ,malware investigation, security playbooks/runbooks, incident reporting
• Candidate Industry:
• Cybersecurity / Security Operations Centre (SOC/JSOC) or related environments
• Education and Certification Qualification:
• Any qualification.

Position Overview

• The Cyber Security Analyst, JSOC is responsible for monitoring, analysing and independently responding to security alerts and incidents across the organization.
• As a core member of the Joint Security Operations Centre (JSOC), the role protects organizational systems and data through threat detection, incident response, detection engineering, security monitoring, security tool administration and continuous improvement of security operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Security Monitoring, Alert Triage & Incident Response (50%) Monitor security alerts and events from JSOC tools and platforms, ensuring the security queue is triaged within established SLAs.
• Independently investigate, triage, contain and resolve cybersecurity incidents across the full incident response lifecycle.
• Perform root cause analysis and document findings and remediation actions.
• Assign incident severity based on established criteria and escalate high-severity incidents according to procedures.
• Participate in after-hours and on-call incident response as required.
• Threat Detection & Alert Tuning (10%) Analyse alert trends to reduce false positives and improve signal quality.
• Develop, tune and maintain detection rules, correlation logic and use cases across security platforms.
• Improve monitoring coverage and detection effectiveness; validate and test new alerting capabilities.
• Map detections to MITRE ATT&CK techniques to identify and close coverage gaps.
• JSOC Playbooks & Process Improvement (15%) Develop, maintain and update JSOC playbooks, runbooks and standard operating procedures.
• Identify opportunities to improve incident response processes and operational efficiency.
• Document lessons learned and incorporate improvements into JSOC procedures.
• Security Tool Administration & Optimization (5%) Act as technical owner for assigned security platforms, such as SIEM, EDR/XDR and email security tools.
• Manage day-to-day configuration, monitoring and optimization of assigned tools.
• Work with vendors and internal teams to troubleshoot issues and implement enhancements.
• Ensure tools operate effectively and generate actionable alerts.
• Threat Hunting & Threat Intelligence (10%) Conduct proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting activities.
• Investigate suspicious activity, compromised accounts, malware infections and phishing incidents.
• Operationalize threat intelligence to improve detection and response, and track relevant threat actors and TTPs.
• Reporting & Documentation (10%) Maintain detailed incident records and investigation notes, ensuring tickets are complete and accurate.
• Contribute to operational metrics, dashboards and management reporting, including MTTD and MTTR. Support security audits, compliance activities and evidence collection as required.

Mandatory Key Skills:

• Security monitoring, alert triage, incident response ,root cause analysis; SIEM, EDR/XDR, threat detection ,threat hunting, phishing ,malware investigation;-security playbooks/runbooks, incident reporting.

Good to Have Skills:

• CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GSEC, SC-200 or equivalent certifications; experience with threat intelligence operationalization and security tool optimization.
• Additional Requirements: Nil

Location - Chennai, bangalore, Pune, Gurgram, Gurgoan