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IT SOC Engineer

Innovo Group

DubaiOn-siteFull-Time2d ago

Description

Role Purpose

The IT Security Operations Centre (SOC) Engineer plays a key role in protecting the organisation’s systems, data, and people by monitoring, detecting, analysing, and responding to cyber security threats and incidents. Working within the Security Engineering function and with a 3rd party SOC service provider, this role helps ensure threats are identified early, incidents are handled effectively, and security controls continue improve as the organisation grows

Key Accountabilities

  • Monitor security alerts and events across systems, networks, endpoints, and cloud platforms
  • Escalate incidents appropriately and support containment, remediation, and recovery activities
  • Maintain accurate incident records, timeline, and post-incident learnings
  • Analyse logs and alerts from security tools to identify patterns, trends, and indicators of compromise
  • Work closely with 3rd party SOC provider to optimise SOC tooling
  • Support tuning of alerts to reduce false positives and improve detection quality
  • Support the development and implementation of SOC processes, playbooks, and procedures
  • Stay up to date with current cyber threats, attack techniques, and defensive strategies
  • Raise awareness about Information & Cyber Security across the business

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Information Systems, Information Technology or related discipline
  • Experience working in a cyber security operations role
  • Strong understanding of cyber security concepts, threats, and attack techniques
  • Experience using security monitoring and response tools
  • Ability to analyse security alerts and logs
  • Familiarity with frameworks such as ISO27001, NIST.

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