As an Assistant Vice President directly reporting to the VP, I lead and manage a 24x7 SOC Department covering Tier 1, Tier 2, and SOC Managers. My responsibilities focus on ensuring end-to-end operational excellence, threat detection, and incident response across various infrastructure.
- Leading and managing a 24x7 SOC Department (L1, L2, SOC Manager), ensuring operational readiness and capability building across all tiers
- Ensuring the SOC maintains playbooks for every threat or alert, providing clear guidance and standardized response procedures
- Providing security data and documentation for internal and external audits
- Overseeing security monitoring, incident response, investigation, and remediation efforts
- Performing digital forensics, alert triage, malware/threat analysis, and acting as War Room Initiator during post-incident investigations
- Developing and implementing use cases, playbooks, and SOAR workflows to improve SOC efficiency
- Driving threat intelligence, proactive hunting, and detection strategies to strengthen cyber defense
- Assisting remediation and escalation processes for critical alerts and L3 incidents
- Leading crisis handling, execution of Business Continuity Plans (BCP), and serving as decision maker for cross-departmental incident outcomes (takedown or release decisions)