Cybersecurity – SOC Analyst & Cloud Security Trainer

Cybersecurity Trainer – SOC Analyst & Cloud Security

Scholar’sEdge Academy · J. P. Nagar 2nd Phase, Bengaluru · On-site · Full-time

Role at a glance

Teaches

Cybersecurity – SOC Analyst & Cloud Security (4.5 months + 2-month internship)

Reports to

Founder / Academic Head

Schedule

live batches of 3 hours a day, Saturday labs and workshops, and free demo classes

Experience

freshers, or minimum 1 year of experience

Salary

₹15,000 – ₹20,000 per month

Email

contact@scholarsedgeacademy.in

Phone / WhatsApp

+91 99020 58603

About Scholar’sEdge Academy

Scholar’sEdge Academy is a skills-and-internship institute in J. P. Nagar, Bengaluru. Every program pairs 3–5 months of live, mentor-led training with a 2-month internship on real projects. Our promise to students is simple: you’ll leave able to show what you can do, not just with a certificate. We’re early, we’re building fast, and the trainer we hire now will shape how we teach cybersecurity.

The role

You’ll train students to work the way a real Security Operations Centre (SOC) team works: watching alerts, investigating suspicious activity, responding to incidents and writing clear reports. You’ll also teach them to secure cloud accounts, where most company data now lives. Everything is taught through hands-on labs, with AI tools used the way security teams use them today: to speed up investigations, never trusted blindly. You’ll be the face of our cybersecurity course, in the classroom, in demo classes and in short videos on our social pages.

What you’ll do

Teach

Deliver live, hands-on classes (3 hours a day) covering networking, operating systems, security fundamentals, SOC operations, incident response and cloud security. Spend most of the time in labs, not on slides.

Run Saturday labs, free weekend workshops and free demo classes for prospective students and parents.

Teach beginners from zero, including non-CS graduates and IT support staff moving into security.

Build proof with students

Guide every student through 4–6 lab projects and a capstone. Examples: a home SOC lab with a SIEM, a phishing investigation, brute-force detection from logs, an incident report, and an AWS or Azure security audit.

Make sure every student leaves with a GitHub portfolio of lab write-ups and a TryHackMe or similar profile showing completed rooms.

Review work every week. Give written feedback, require fixes and track each student’s progress.

Mentor students during the 2-month internship: plan real project work, run daily stand-ups and sign off the deliverables.

Keep the course current

Help update the syllabus, labs, assignments and quizzes as new threats and tools appear.

Run mock interviews for SOC Analyst (L1) roles, and help students prepare for entry-level certifications.

Be the face of the course

Appear on camera in 1–2 short teaching videos a week. Scripts and editing support are provided. Examples: “Spot the phishing mail in 30 seconds” or “What a SOC analyst sees on screen.”

Answer course questions honestly, and never promise jobs or salaries.

Teach ethics first

security skills are used only on systems you own or have written permission to test.

What you must know

Networking

Must have

OSI and TCP/IP models, IP addressing and subnetting, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, common ports and protocols, firewalls, VPNs

Good to have

packet analysis in depth, network segmentation design

Operating systems

Must have

Linux command line, Windows basics, Windows event logs, Active Directory concepts

Good to have

Sysmon, Linux log analysis (auth.log, syslog)

Security fundamentals

Must have: the CIA triad, common attacks (phishing, malware, ransomware, brute force, SQL injection, XSS), OWASP Top 10, encryption and hashing basics

Good to have

vulnerability scanning (Nessus, OpenVAS), Burp Suite basics

SOC operations

Must have: what a SIEM does, alert triage, log analysis, the incident response lifecycle, writing incident reports, hands-on with at least one SIEM in a lab (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh or Elastic)

Good to have

EDR tools (Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike), threat hunting, SOAR automation, digital forensics basics

Threat intelligence and frameworks

Must have

MITRE ATT&CK and the cyber kill chain at a working level, Wireshark, Nmap, VirusTotal and other threat-intelligence sites

Good to have

writing detection rules (Sigma, KQL or SPL)

Cloud security

Must have

identity and access management (IAM), the shared responsibility model, common cloud misconfigurations, in AWS or Azure

Good to have

AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, cloud logging (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)

AI in security

Must have: using AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude or similar) to explain logs, write queries and summarise incidents, and teaching students to verify everything they produce

Good to have

Microsoft Security Copilot or similar, awareness of AI-specific threats such as prompt injection and deepfake phishing

Scripting and compliance

Good to have

Python or PowerShell for automation, ISO 27001 basics, India’s DPDP Act and IT Act basics

Who we’re looking for

Freshers, or minimum 1 year of experience in a SOC, security, network or IT support role. Internships count.

Freshers must show hands-on proof: a home lab, TryHackMe or Hack The Box progress, CTF results, lab write-ups on GitHub or a blog, or a security certification.

Has taught or mentored others, as a trainer, tutor, teaching assistant or college security club lead. Not required, but a strong plus.

Explains technical attacks in simple, everyday language, and is patient with beginners.

Strong ethics

teaches only legal, permission-based testing.

Comfortable teaching in English. Kannada and/or Hindi is a plus for students and parents.

Degree in CS, IT, electronics or a related field (B.E., B.Tech, BCA, MCA, B.Sc.), or equivalent proven skill. Certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CEH, ISC2 CC, Microsoft SC-200 / SC-900, or AWS / Azure security fundamentals are a plus.

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