Senior SOC Engineer - QAR

Major National Organisation | Critical Infrastructure Environment

We are hiring a Senior SOC Engineer to join a high-performing security operations team within a large-scale, mission-critical environment in Qatar.

This is a hands-on, technical position focused on detection engineering, advanced threat hunting, vulnerability management, and SOC maturity improvement
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If you enjoy building detection logic, tuning use cases aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, and leading vulnerability lifecycle management - this role is for you.

• Lead complex security investigations and root cause analysis
• Monitor and optimise SIEM, XDR, NDR, OT & cloud security platforms
• Drive SLA/KPI adherence within SOC operations

• Develop and tune SIEM/XDR correlation rules aligned to MITRE ATT&CK
• Build advanced use cases (insider threat, ransomware, APT, data exfiltration)

• Own the full vulnerability lifecycle (discovery → validation)
• Risk-based prioritisation using CVSS & business impact
• Work with Tenable / Qualys / Rapid7
• Perform proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting
• Integrate threat intelligence feeds

• 8+ years’ experience in Security Operations / SOC
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• SIEM (Splunk / QRadar / Sentinel or similar)
• EDR/XDR & NDR platforms
• Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7
• MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Cloud security monitoring (Azure / AWS / GCP)
• Experience in SOC build, automation & continuous maturity improvement

• TCSC (Tenable Certified Security Center)