Overview
Security Intelligence & Analyst – SOC L3 at XAD Technologies — Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ### **The Role** The SOC L3 – Security Intelligence & Analytics role is a senior cybersecurity position within the 5G Intelligence and Analytics function. The role is accountable for advanced threat detection, investigation, and response across 4G/5G RAN and Core environments, including development of 5G-specific security use cases, playbooks, and continuous improvement of the SOC security posture.
Full job description
The Role
The SOC L3 – Security Intelligence & Analytics role is a senior cybersecurity position within the 5G Intelligence and Analytics function. The role is accountable for advanced threat detection, investigation, and response across 4G/5G RAN and Core environments, including development of 5G-specific security use cases, playbooks, and continuous improvement of the SOC security posture.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design and deploy 5G security use cases across SOC platforms for RAN and Core networks
- Analyze 5G protocols, traffic flows, and architectures to identify advanced threats
- Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and SOPs
- Lead root cause analysis and advanced investigations for high-severity incidents
- Contain, remediate, and mitigate security incidents with minimal business impact
- Leverage SIEM, SOAR, IDS/IPS tools to analyze and neutralize threats
- Operationalize threat intelligence to strengthen proactive detection capabilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement preventive security controls
- Define and present KPIs, KRIs, and SOC performance metrics
- Mentor SOC analysts and contribute to capability uplift and knowledge sharing
Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Cybersecurity, IT, or related field
- Minimum 5 years experience in a SOC environment
- Strong expertise in 4G/5G security operations and telecom networks
- Hands-on experience with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, SIEM, SOAR, IDS/IPS
- Proven experience managing high-severity incidents across IT and OT environments
- Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills
- ISP/telecom experience is a strong advantage
- Certifications preferred: CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, Elastic Certified Analyst, BTL1, MITRE ATT&CK Defender, CCNA/CCNP CyberOps
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