SOC Engineer 1 (Bellandur)

SOC Engineer - 1 Detection Engineering, Incident Leadership & Operational Excellence Location: Bangalore (Work From Office) Reports to: CISO Cashfree Payments operates mission-critical payment and API infrastructure under RBI and PCI-DSS oversight. Our setting processes high-volume financial transactions and demands high-fidelity detection, rapid response, and operational resilience. We are building an automation-driven SOC designed to scale beyond traditional monitoring models. Role Summary The SOC Engineer - 1 is a senior, hands-on technical expert pivotal in accelerating the defensive posture and operational maturity of the Cashfree Payments SOC. This role moves beyond traditional monitoring, focusing instead on Detection Engineering, Incident Response Leadership, and operational scaling within our high-volume, regulated Fintech environment. We are looking for a system-thinker and builder who can autonomously architect scalable, automation-driven security solutions. Key Responsibilities Detection and Threat Engineering Architect, develop, implement, and continually tune detection rules and correlation logic across SIEM and EDR platforms to effectively identify and remediate security threats. Proactively identify and map detection gaps to the MITRE ATT&CK; framework, leveraging threat intelligence to stay ahead of emerging threats and focus on cloud, containerized, and payment systems. Implement advanced contextual alerting and enrichment strategies to drastically reduce false positive rates and combat alert fatigue, ensuring the SOC can respond quickly and effectively to real threats. Conduct proactive, hypothesis-driven hunting exercises across diverse telemetry sources to uncover covert threats and improve the overall security posture of the organization. Incident Response Leadership & Handling Function as the primary technical lead for high-severity and complex security incidents, driving effective containment, eradication, and recovery strategie .