A Lead SOC Analyst role is open in Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow. It's a full-time, on-site position paying 228,500 rupees a month, under the Cybersecurity category.
The Work Itself
The role centers on three core responsibilities that run continuously across every shift.
- Keeping constant watch over system activity for early signs of compromise
- Taking flagged incidents from first detection through full resolution
- Putting safeguards in place that keep company data secure day to day
Most incidents start small and easy to dismiss. A service account that normally runs one scheduled job a day might suddenly kick off a dozen new processes overnight, and figuring out whether that's a misconfigured cron job or something worse is exactly the kind of judgment call this role exists for. As the lead, you decide when to escalate and when to close a ticket with a note explaining why it wasn't a real threat.
Log analysis sits underneath almost everything here. A clean incident report only comes from someone who knows how to pull the right logs quickly, cross-reference timestamps across systems, and tell the difference between noise and a genuine pattern.
The role also has a coaching side that's easy to underestimate going in. Junior analysts bring things to the lead that they're not sure about, and part of the job is teaching them how to reason through an ambiguous alert instead of just handing them the answer every time.
Skills Required
- Hands-on experience with SIEM tools
- Threat detection, including recognizing early indicators before they escalate
- Incident response, from initial triage through resolution
- Log analysis across multiple systems and formats
Good to Have
A background in threat hunting beyond reactive monitoring will stand out, as will experience building or tuning SIEM correlation rules rather than just working with rules someone else set up. Familiarity with a specific attack framework, like MITRE ATT&CK, for structuring incident reports is also valued, along with any scripting ability that speeds up repetitive log parsing tasks.
Prior exposure to compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 audits is a plus too, mainly because a lead in this role occasionally ends up fielding questions from auditors or client security teams directly. It's not the core of the job, but it comes up often enough to matter.
Education and Experience
A bachelor's degree is the baseline, generally in cybersecurity, information technology, or a closely related field. Alongside the degree, a recognized security certification matters, something like CEH or CompTIA Security+, since it signals a level of structured knowledge that pure job experience doesn't always cover on its own.
On the experience side, the role calls for 96 months in security operations work. That's enough time to have led an incident response effort personally, not just supported one from the sidelines, which matters for a lead position where junior analysts will be looking to you during a live event.
The certification requirement is treated as a floor, not a ceiling. Someone who's added a more advanced credential since earning CEH or Security+ won't be penalized, but nobody should feel they need to chase an alphabet soup of certifications just to be considered here.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary is 228,500 rupees a month, which puts this listing among the higher-paying SOC analyst jobs for experienced professionals in Lucknow right now. Beyond that, employees get health coverage, paid time off, and bonuses tied to performance outcomes rather than a flat annual amount.
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Performance-linked bonuses
- Relocation assistance for candidates moving to Lucknow
- Accommodation support during the settling-in period
Working in Gomti Nagar
Vibhuti Khand sits within Gomti Nagar, one of Lucknow's better-established commercial areas, and the office here runs a security operations center that monitors client infrastructure well beyond the city limits. Naukri Mitra has seen growing interest in SOC analyst jobs in Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow over the past few hiring cycles, likely because the pay here runs well above the typical SOC analyst salary in Lucknow per month for comparable seniority. Relocation support genuinely helps for anyone coming in from outside the state, since finding housing near Gomti Nagar on short notice isn't always straightforward. Several BPO and IT service companies operate in the same commercial belt, so the area has grown used to accommodating professionals relocating for tech jobs.
What the Team Looks Like
The SOC here runs in shifts, and the lead role includes some responsibility for coverage planning, not just technical work. Expect the pace to vary sharply: long, quiet stretches of routine monitoring punctuated by short windows when three things go wrong at once, and everyone needs clear direction fast. Analysts on the team range from a couple of years of experience to over a decade, so part of the job is calibrating how much detail to give depending on who's asking.
Documentation gets taken seriously here, partly because clients sometimes review incident reports directly. A report that's vague about timeline or root cause reflects badly on the whole team, so there's a real emphasis on writing clearly under pressure, not just resolving the technical issue.
Shift handovers matter more than they might in a role without round-the-clock coverage. Whoever's coming off shift needs to leave enough context that the next person isn't reopening an investigation from scratch, and the lead generally sets the standard for what a good handover looks like.
How to Apply
Candidates meeting the education, certification, and experience requirements above should apply through the process listed with this posting. Be ready to walk through a past incident in detail during the interview, including what you missed the first time and what you'd do differently now. We review applications as they arrive, so earlier submissions typically get scheduled sooner. Candidates from outside cybersecurity with strong adjacent IT operations experience are welcome to apply, as long as they meet the certification requirement.
