SOC Engineer

Location: Bengaluru

Job Title:

SOC Engineer

Location:

Bangalore, Karnataka

Duration:
Long-Term Contract

Company Overview:

- Fluidech is a technology consulting and managed services firm focused on cybersecurity.
- Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Gurugram—and today with a client base spanning over 100 organisations worldwide—Fluidech designs IT solutions aligned with business objectives, fostering trusted relationships and delivering measurable performance improvements.
- Established as a born-in-the-cloud company, Fluidech has evolved into a trusted technology partner that helps businesses build (Cloud & Infrastructure), automate (Dev Ops), and secure (Cyber Security services).
- Our solutions span diverse industry verticals, aligned with each client’s business goals.
- In addition to holding ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications and an award-winning cybersecurity team, the company has a strong value proposition in its GRC services across frameworks, including but not limited to NCIIPC’s CAF, SEBI’s CSCRF, and others.

Position Overview

Our US Client is looking for an experienced SOC Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in SIEM, SOAR, and especially Datadog Security Monitoring. The ideal candidate will be responsible for real-time monitoring, threat detection, incident investigation, and driving automation within the security operations ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

- Monitor security events, alerts, and logs through Datadog, SIEM, and SOAR platforms.
- Perform in-depth analysis of security incidents and coordinate timely responses.
- Investigate suspicious activities, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and potential threats.
- Develop and fine-tune SIEM rules, dashboards, alerts, and correlation logic.
- Build, optimise, and maintain SOAR playbooks for incident response automation.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to contain, remediate, and prevent future incidents.
- Conduct threat hunting using Datadog and other security tools.
- Provide detailed incident reports, post-incident analysis, and recommendations.
- Stay up to date with emerging cyber threats, attack vectors, and security best practices.

Required Qualifications & Skills

- 4–5 years of hands-on experience in a Security Operations Centre (SOC) environment.
- Strong expertise with Datadog Security Monitoring, including:
- Log pipelines, detections, dashboards, monitors
- Threat detection rule creation
- Custom integrations
- Proven experience working with SIEM and SOAR platforms (Datadog preferred; others like Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, Cortex XSOAR are a plus).
- Solid understanding of:
- Network and security protocols
- Threat intelligence, IOCs, malware behaviour
- MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Incident response lifecycle
- Ability to analyse logs from firewalls, endpoints, cloud systems, applications, and network devices.

- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills.