Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Security Operations leadership is increasingly central to SaaS reliability, especially as products consolidate observability and security telemetry into cloud-native platforms. A Manager, Security Operations role in Bangalore signals a focus on running a modern SOC function that can interpret high-volume log data, correlate events, and translate findings into remediation across cloud infrastructure and application layers—work that maps closely to how SaaS systems are built and operated today.
For a long-term SaaS career, this position builds durable experience in incident response at scale: shaping detection strategies, guiding investigations, and turning recurring threats into improved controls, processes, and engineering changes. The emphasis on AWS security, compliance frameworks (such as PCI and SOC), and threat modeling aligns with the governance and customer assurance expectations that mature SaaS companies face as they grow their footprint and data sensitivity.
This role tends to suit security leaders who prefer hands-on operational depth alongside people management—mentoring analysts, setting triage standards, and partnering with engineering on practical risk reduction. It also fits professionals who enjoy root-cause analysis, can navigate ambiguity during incidents, and want their decisions to influence both day-to-day security outcomes and longer-term posture improvements.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
What will your typical day be?
- You will manage SOC analysts, performing deep-dive incident analysis and data correlation using the Sumo Logic Platform, and guide analysts through triage and remediation.
- You will assess impact on critical systems, address vulnerabilities, support threat detection through machine learning, and facilitate cross-functional collaboration.
- Your role includes mentoring SOC analysts, training to enhance your skills, assisting engineering with compliance and security requirements, and developing your team to handle evolving threats.
Additionally, you will continuously improve the organization's security posture, including policy, process, and engineering changes.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience
- Must have 8+ years of overall security experience, including a minimum of 2 years in AWS Security, and at least 2 years of leadership experience.
- Must be a proactive self-starter.
- Have a passion for identifying the root cause of technical problems and issues.
- Must be well-versed in major compliance frameworks and certifications such as PCI and SOC, along with typical compliance requirements.
- Possess the creativity and experience to anticipate alternative vulnerability vectors and mitigate exposure.
- Have in-depth knowledge of AWS services, endpoint security, threat intelligence, forensics, and malware reverse engineering.
- Can quickly grasp the functionality of applications and the underlying cloud infrastructure to act as an incident hunter.
- Possess advanced skills in log parsing, incident investigation, and response.
- Have a solid understanding of emerging security threats and mitigation strategies.
- Have extensive experience with advanced Threat Modeling (OWASP, STRIDE, PASTA, Trike).
- Must be enthusiastic about collaborating with and mentoring the team.
- Have thorough knowledge of Incident Response procedures.
Desired Qualifications and Skills
- AWS Certified Security - Speciality
- CISSP or CISM or CCSP
- CEH or OSCP
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
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