SIEM & Detection Engineer - Wazuh | Azure | SOC

📍 Location: Hyderabad, India

💼 Employment: Full-time

🎯 Experience: 4–6 years

Role Description

• Wazuh / SIEM administration and engineering
• Log source onboarding & integration across Windows, Linux, Azure, Kubernetes, firewalls, WAF, EDR/XDR, VPN, DNS, applications and databases
• Detection engineering – rules, decoders, parsers, correlation and security use cases
• SIEM alert tuning and false-positive reduction
• Detection development aligned with MITRE ATT&CK
• Azure and Kubernetes security monitoring
• SIEM integration with SOAR, EDR, Threat Intelligence and ticketing platforms
• Threat hunting and proactive detection improvement
• SIEM troubleshooting, log-ingestion health and data-quality management
• Supporting SOC analysts with investigation and incident response
• Building and maintaining dashboards, KPIs, runbooks and detection documentation

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of hands-on experience in SIEM Esp Wazuh, SOC, cybersecurity engineering, or security monitoring.
• Experience working in an MSSP/SOC environment, supporting multiple customers, tenants, or security monitoring environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Wazuh or equivalent SIEM platforms.
• Experience with multi-tenant SIEM operations, customer-specific log onboarding, detection use cases, alert tuning, and monitoring requirements.
• Experience onboarding and integrating logs from Windows, Linux, Azure, Kubernetes, firewalls, WAF, EDR/XDR, VPN, IAM/Entra ID, DNS, applications, and databases.
• Strong understanding of SIEM architecture, log collection, parsing, normalization, correlation, detection rules, and alerting.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and tuning SIEM use cases and detection rules.
• Good understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, threat detection, threat hunting, and common attack techniques.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Azure security/logging services.
• Hands-on understanding of Kubernetes and container environments.
• Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux, networking, and security technologies.
• Experience integrating SIEM with SOAR, EDR/XDR, Threat Intelligence, ticketing, and other security platforms.
• Ability to troubleshoot log ingestion, agents, collectors, parsers, indexing, storage, and SIEM performance.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work with SOC L1/L2 analysts, customers, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams.