Senior SOC Engineer

About the role

You will operate independently from day one, while partnering closely with Security, Engineering, GRC, Legal, and leadership to protect Vegapay’s platform, customers, and partners from active threats. Define and execute the operating roadmap for Vegapay’s Security Operations Center — processes, playbooks, use cases, detection coverage, and metrics

What you'll do

• Be the first and only member of the SOC on day one, responsible end-to-end for designing the function, selecting and deploying tooling, running day-to-day operations
• Take ownership of the SOC technology stack (SIEM, SOAR, EDR, log pipeline, threat intel platform) being stood up in parallel — configure, integrate, tune
• Establish operating cadence, coverage model, and escalation paths; design the hiring plan to scale the function beyond this founding role
• Build and tune detection content across cloud (AWS/GCP), endpoint, identity, network, and application layers
• Establish monitoring coverage during the build-out — directly during business hours and via tooling and MSSP partnerships off-hours — and transition to an in-house…

What you need

• 6–8 yrs of experience
• Incident response
• SIEM
• Vulnerability assessment
• EDR
• ISO 27001
• CISSP
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Splunk
• AWS
• GCP
• CI/CD
• Terraform