Hire a SOC Analyst.

SOC analysts are the front line of detection and response — triaging alerts, investigating anomalies, and escalating what matters. The market has depth at tier 1 and gets thin fast at tier 2–3, where investigation skill and calm under incident pressure separate candidates. We screen with alert-triage scenarios against realistic noise, and we verify shift-work expectations explicitly, because mismatched on-call assumptions are the top cause of early attrition in this role.