Senior SOC Analyst - Azure Sentinel & Cloud Security

100% Remote SOC Analyst

Must be local to Hyderabad or able to relocate upon conversion

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Security Operations Analyst role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Azure Sentinel-based security monitoring solutions across cloud and hybrid environments. This role focuses on building scalable analytics, automation, threat detections, and integrating data and developing data sources from enterprise systems—including Azure, M365, network security tools, serverless applications, containerized resources and IoMT environments where applicable. This role serves as a technical expertise for Azure Sentinel engineering, KQL query development, security automation (SOAR), threat detection improvements, log onboarding, optimizing log ingestion, creating efficiency and framework dashboards and reporting design to support a high-maturity SOC.

Compensation: $5-10/hr Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 3 to 7 years of experience in Security engineering and Security operations.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, information technology, cybersecurity, or related area

• 3 years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel, KQL and terraform.

• Strong understanding of Azure ecosystems and Azure Infrastructure/Platform service including common security services (firewalls, WAF, IDPS and RBAC).

• Experience building customer analytics rules, playbooks and workbooks.

• Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, incident response and security monitoring best practices.

• Experience with scripting and query languages like Python, Terraform, JSON and KQL.