Technical SOC Lead Contract jobs in San Jose, CA

Position: Technical SOC Lead

Location: San Jose, CA or Palo Alto, CA or (Any Nearby TCS office) / Hybrid role

Duration: 12 months

Technical SOC Lead – Job Description

Role Summary

The Technical SOC Lead is the senior technical authority within the Security Operations Centre, responsible for advanced incident response, SIEM engineering, detection

engineering, automation, threat hunting, and overall platform maturity. This role acts as the technical escalation point for L1/L2/L3 analysts and drives the technical roadmap for

improving detection capability, reducing false positives, and strengthening cyber defense.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end response for high-severity Security incidents (malware, phishing, identity compromise, privilege misuse, lateral movement, cloud breaches).

. Lead L1, L2, and L3 SOC teams to ensure 24×7 monitoring, analysis, and response

· Oversee BAU operations including ticket management, SLA tracking, shift governance, dashboards, and reporting.

· Perform deep-dive investigation using SIEM, EDR, logs, memory analysis, and network telemetry.

· Define containment and eradication actions and coordinate with Infra/Network/Cloud teams.

. Lead root cause analysis (RCA) with actionable remediation steps.

· Develop and continuously improve incident response playbooks.

· Monitor Integrate new log sources (cloud, network, identity, endpoint, SASE/ZTNA, application logs).

. Responsible for Create and tune correlation rules/use cases mapped to MITREATT&CK.

. Reduce false positives by tuning rules, data normalization, suppression logic, and enrichment

. Lead post-incident reviews and implement corrective actions. Ensure parsing, field extraction, UDM/CEF mappings, and data quality validation.

· Handle customer interactions, weekly governance decks, KPI/KRI reporting, and monthly service reviews.

Education: At least a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or closely related field is required.