Job Title:
Senior Security Engineer (Required Skills - SOC)
Company: H&R Block India
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Created: 2026-03-29
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Support a 24x7 Global Security Operation Center (SOC) environment by responding to security events in the environment. Handle security event escalations from other analysts. Perform investigations with supporting information from logs and security monitoring tools. Improve efficiency of SOC processes through gap analysis, fine tuning of use cases, proposing parsing improvements etc. Improve Mean Time to Detect and Mean Time to Respond through process enhancements and timely mitigation of security incidents. Propose new log ingestion and use cases for new log sources to detect suspicious activity. Develop and maintain standard operating procedures. Tracks cases to closure. Must be willing to work as part of a 24x7 shift rotation team. Guide and mentor SOC analysts. May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned. Stay up to date on the latest security threats and vulnerabilities. Need to have: At least 4 years of experience performing security incident analysis. Bachelor’s degree in computer science. Advanced investigation methods and knowledge of security tools. Decision making skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Strong customer service attitude. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Good to have: Malware analysis skills Forensics investigation skills Threat hunting skills