SME SECURITY OPS CENTER (SOC)
Date: 12 Jun 2026
Location: Gurgaon, HR, IN, 122015
Company: Hero Motocorp
Function
D&IT
Pay Band
E5
Role
IT SOC Lead
A purpose driven role for you
Responsible for IT SOC Operations, Designing & Adapting right fit Industry best Security practices, enhancing detection, and response capability for the emerging threat landscape.
A Day in the life
A day in life will be around: Responsible for IT SOC Operations; Designing & Adapting the right-fit Industry-best Security practices; enhancing detection and response capabilities for the emerging threat landscape.
- Lead and manage all aspects of SOC operations, ensuring effective security monitoring and incident response.
- Establish and enforce governance over IT/OT security monitoring activities across the organization.
- Facilitate seamless collaboration and communication between SOC analysts/service providers and operation engineers.
- Contribute to the development and execution of the organization's cybersecurity SOC strategy.
- Direct and orchestrate the company's response to significant security threats, thereby safeguarding the organization from cyber incidents.
- Validate new project deliveries to identify potential cyber threats and enhance detection capabilities.
- Proactively monitor the organization's networks for security breaches and conduct thorough investigations into any reported violations.
- Accurately identify and categorize false and true positive security incidents/events.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of various security solutions and technologies, including SIEMs, Patch Management, Network Visibility, EDR, CASB, Packet Tracers, Network Traffic Analysers, and DLPs.
- Oversee daily DLP operations, including incident analysis and forensic assessments.
- Provide essential investigative support from a DLP perspective.
- Drive the enhancement of DLP tool capabilities and expand its coverage throughout the organization.
- Recommend pertinent IT security enhancements to IT Management.
- Provide support for IT security audits and assist in the development and implementation of remediation plans as required.
- Enable automated responses to recurring incidents/events through SOAR adoption.
- Identify and implement optimal SIEM use cases, Brand Monitoring use cases, and Threat Hunting use cases.
- Ensure timely tracking and closure of all SIEM, Threat Hunting, and Brand Monitoring tickets.
- Oversee both horizontal and vertical deployment strategies for the SOC.
- Identify current security threats and anticipate future attack vectors.
- Collaborate with project teams and third-party vendors to ensure that all new hardware or software installations adhere to enhanced SOC security standards.
- Identify, document, and maintain the IT & OT security risk register, reporting findings directly to the CISO.
- Orchestrate the company's response to major security threats.
- Oversee the review and update of SOC Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Lead collaborative efforts with teams and analysts to ensure timely acknowledgment of all alerts, incidents, and events.
- Represent the organization's security posture during internal and external audits.
- Adopt best practices for monitoring and correlation-based actions.
- Govern weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual report submissions.
- Drive security awareness & conducts regular training on security policy and standard requirements through training, communication, and workshops.
- Responsible for arranging trainings for analysts
- Coordinate with Partner team for managed SOC-SIEM day to day operations
- Coordinate with managed partner for implementation of security control
Academic Qualification & Experience
B. Tech /B.E.- CS/IT/EC
2-5 Years in SOC & DLP
Technical Skills/Knowledge
- SOC
- DLP
- EDR
- G Suite
- ITIL
Behavioural Skills
- Communication
- Team work
- Interpersonal
- Problem Solving
- Presentation
What will it be like to work for Hero
About Hero
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