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Zoho Corporation is hiring skilled cybersecurity professionals for the role of Engineer – ITS SecOps at its Chennai office. This opportunity is ideal for candidates with 1–3 years of experience in SOC operations, incident response, and threat detection who are looking to grow their career in a strong product-based company.
🔔 Zoho SecOps Engineer Job Overview
- Company: Zoho Corporation
- Job Role: Engineer – ITS SecOps
- Experience Required: 1–3 Years
- Work Location: Chennai
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Department: ITS Security Operations (SOC)
🧑💻 Job Description – Engineer ITS SecOps
Zoho is looking for a proactive and security-focused engineer to join its Security Operations team. In this role, you will be responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity incidents, while helping strengthen Zoho’s overall security posture.
You will work with modern security tools, threat intelligence, and SOC processes to protect systems, networks, and sensitive data from evolving cyber threats.
🔐 Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze security alerts using SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, IDS/IPS, HIDS, honeypots, and phishing protection tools
- Investigate malware, ransomware, phishing payloads, and suspicious binaries
- Perform proactive threat hunting across endpoints and security logs
- Conduct log analysis and event correlation to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
- Research emerging threats and apply threat intelligence
- Tune and optimize security tools to reduce false positives
- Manage the incident response lifecycle (Detection → Containment → Eradication → Recovery)
- Perform incident triage and investigations based on SOC procedures
- Prepare incident reports and maintain security documentation
- Support internal security awareness and knowledge sharing
🛠️ Technical Skills Required
Networking & Security Fundamentals
- TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS
- Firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, Endpoint Protection
SOC & Security Operations
- SIEM tools (log analysis & incident investigation)
- EDR/XDR, DLP, phishing protection
- Threat hunting & IOC identification
- Malware analysis, phishing analysis, ransomware detection
- Incident response & SOC workflows
Systems & Scripting
- Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, macOS
- Basic scripting knowledge:
Security Research
- Threat intelligence analysis
- Emerging attack techniques and defensive strategies
🤝 Soft Skills Required
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure during security incidents
- Team-oriented mindset with a continuous learning attitude
🎯 Who Should Apply?
This role is best suited for:
- SOC Analysts (L1 / L2)
- Cybersecurity Engineers
- Incident Response Analysts
- Threat Hunting Professionals
- Security Operations Analysts
Candidates with hands-on experience in SIEM, EDR, malware analysis, and incident handling will have a strong advantage.
📍 Why Work at Zoho?
- Strong product-based company
- Exposure to real-world security incidents
- Hands-on work with advanced security tools
- Career growth in cybersecurity & SecOps
- Stable and employee-friendly work culture
⚠️ Disclaimer
This job post is shared for informational purposes only.
We are not directly associated with Zoho Corporation.
Zoho does not charge any fees at any stage of the hiring process.
Candidates are advised to apply only through official Zoho career channels.
