Security Engineer - II (SOC)

Tekion is hiring a Security Engineer - II (SOC) in Bangalore HQ.

Responsibilities

• Work in a 24x7 SOC environment on a rotating shift schedule, including night shifts, weekends, and holidays, providing continuous alert monitoring and response coverage.

• Triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts from SIEM, EDR, cloud, network, and identity sources; escalate confirmed incidents per established procedures.

• Continuously tune detections and alert logic to reduce false positives and improve signal-to-noise ratio across the alert pipeline.

• Build, test, and maintain detection rules and use cases aligned to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, based on emerging threats and gaps identified during investigations.

• Design, build, and maintain automation using AI agents and SOAR workflows/playbooks to accelerate alert triage, enrichment, containment, and response.

• Define, track, and report SOC metrics (e.g., MTTD, MTTR, alert volume, false positive rates, automation coverage) to measure and improve SOC effectiveness.

• Participate in incident detection, response, containment, and root cause analysis, including post-incident reviews and lessons learned.

• Implement, configure, and maintain security tools, monitoring systems, and access controls that support SOC operations.

• Support vulnerability management, including scanning, analysis, and remediation coordination.

• Collaborate with Engineering and IT teams to embed security best practices and improve telemetry, logging, and detection coverage.

• Assist in maintaining compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST).

• Contribute to threat modeling and risk assessments for new projects and technologies.

• Create and maintain security documentation, runbooks, playbooks, and knowledge bases to support consistent shift handoffs and response quality.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and analysts, including during shift operations.

• Stay current on emerging security threats, detection techniques, AI-driven security tooling, and technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.

• 4–6 years of experience in security operations, security engineering, incident response, or related roles.

• Willingness and ability to work in a 24x7 SOC on a rotating shift schedule, including night shifts, weekends, and holidays.

• Hands-on experience with alert triage, investigation, and incident response in a SOC environment.

• Experience building and tuning detections in SIEM/EDR platforms and reducing false positives; familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK.

• Experience with SOAR platforms and building automated playbooks; exposure to AI agents or LLM-based automation for security operations strongly preferred.

• Strong understanding of network, application, and cloud security principles.

• Experience with security tools such as SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners, and endpoint protection.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their security services and logging.

• Familiarity with compliance and security frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS).

• Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or equivalent) preferred.

• Experience defining and reporting operational security metrics (MTTD, MTTR, false positive rates) preferred.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Good written and verbal communication abilities, including clear documentation and shift handoffs.

• Industry certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GSEC, or CEH preferred.

Current Tekion Employees: Please apply via the Internal Job Board in Ashby

About Tekion

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through