Senior SOC Architect

Title: Senior SOC Architect Location: Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid) It all starts with the mission: NVISO is here to protect European society from potentially devastating cyber attacks. This means we offer cyber security services to private and governmental organizations to help them better prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to cyber security incidents. All of this is built on four fundamental values that define who we are: **We are Proud, We Break Barriers, We Care and No BS!** ## Tasks As a **Senior SOC Architect**, your role is to provide senior technical leadership within NVISO’s Cyber Security Engineering (CEN) Service Line, with a focus on complex Security Operations Center environments and advanced detection and response capabilities. You act as the senior technical lead for complex customer engagements where strong architectural judgment, delivery oversight and operational credibility are required. You help customers structure, improve and evolve their SOC environment by bringing clarity across multiple workstreams, aligning technical priorities, and ensuring that strategic objectives are translated into pragmatic technical direction. You work closely with customer leadership, project managers, architects, engineers and analysts to improve technical quality, reporting, collaboration and long-term operational effectiveness. You are able to step into difficult or politically sensitive customer contexts, understand what is blocking progress, and help create the momentum needed to move forward. You provide technical leadership at the intersection of SOC architecture, engineering oversight and innovation. You define future-ready security operations approaches, elevate technical quality across engagements, and act as a driving force for new team capabilities, including the practical adoption of AI within SOC services. **Typical tasks include but are not limited to:** * Acting as the senior technical lead in complex SOC environments, providing architectural direction and technical oversight across multiple parallel workstreams; * Advising customers on SOC architecture, operating models, detection and response capabilities, and the evolution of their security operations landscape; * Bringing structure and technical clarity to large or complex customer situations where multiple teams, priorities or technologies need to be aligned; * Translating operational pain points, business expectations and strategic ambitions into actionable technical roadmaps and improvement plans; * Reviewing and challenging technical approaches, designs and priorities to improve quality, scalability and long-term maintainability; * Supporting collaboration, reporting and delivery effectiveness across customer teams and NVISO teams involved in the same environment; * Contributing to solution shaping, scoping and architectural direction for strategic SOC, SIEM, detection engineering and automation initiatives; * Guiding teams through difficult technical decisions, trade-offs and architectural discussions in a pragmatic and customer-oriented way; * Providing senior support in high-impact engagements that require both technical depth and executive-level credibility; * Identifying capability gaps, structural blockers or recurring inefficiencies and helping define realistic ways to address them; * Driving new SOC developments within the team by helping shape reusable approaches, strengthening service maturity and promoting innovation, including AI-enabled use cases where they create real value; * Staying up to date with relevant market trends, technologies and operating approaches in SOC, SIEM, detection engineering, automation and broader security operations. * You are passionate about cyber security, architecture and operational improvement. You enjoy working in challenging customer environments, bringing order to complexity, and helping both customers and teams move toward better technical outcomes. ## Requirements * **You hold citizenship in one of the 32 NATO member states;** * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field; * A minimum of 10 years of experience in cyber security or adjacent technology consulting; * At least 5 years of experience in senior consulting, technical leadership, architecture or lead roles in complex SOC or security operations environments; * Strong experience with SOC architecture, security operations, detection and response processes, and the practical realities of operating complex SOC environments; * Broad understanding of technologies and delivery patterns relevant to modern security operations, ideally including SIEM, detection engineering, SOAR, automation, case management and related integrations; * Ability to act as the technical lead in complex customer engagements involving multiple stakeholders, delivery tracks or service providers; * Proven experience translating business needs, operational challenges and strategic objectives into pragmatic technical direction and architectural decisions; * Strong customer-facing consulting skills, including the ability to bring structure, credibility and clarity in challenging or politically sensitive situations; * Experience contributing to scoping, solution shaping, proposal discussions or technical positioning for strategic projects is a strong asset; * Excellent communication skills in English; professional working proficiency in French or Dutch is required; * Strong analytical skills and the ability to keep technical oversight across multiple concurrent workstreams. **_Soft Skills_** * Being able to work independently and keep track of your priorities; * Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills that enable effective collaboration across teams and customer environments; * A natural ability to bring structure, calm and direction in complex or high-pressure situations; * Confidence and credibility when interacting with senior customer stakeholders, project managers and technical experts; * Pragmatic, solution-oriented and able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership; * The ability to challenge constructively, align stakeholders and move discussions toward clear outcomes; * A positive, team- and mission-oriented attitude aligned with NVISO’s values (Proud, Break Barriers, Care, No BS). ## Benefits At NVISO, we care. We are committed to offering you a highly competitive remuneration package including financial and non-financial components: * A training budget of 10.000€ and 10 days every two years * Company car + Belgian fuel card * Working and learning from the best people in the European cyber security industry. We have multiple SANS Instructors working at NVISO, our staff has presented at popular hacking conferences (BlackHat, BruCON, OWASP, etc) and all of our technical staff can acquire deep technical security certifications (GSE, GXPN, GREM, GCFA, OSCP, etc) * An entrepreneurial and agile company, where you will be stimulated and supported in driving new initiatives (either through internal innovation or by improving our service offering), without losing sight of having fun! * Regular team-building and fun events with legendary off-site events once a year. The location of the next team building is one of the most closely guarded secrets at NVISO… We can however disclose that we’ve visited Lisbon, Dubai and Malta over the past few years * Our commitment to coach and counsel you and help you grow; each employee receives a personal coach within the team, whose role is to ensure your well-being and helps you grow in your career! * Flexible working hours and home office possibilities * Flex Reward Plan * 32 holidays **IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND US YOUR APPLICATION!** **WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU!** **Disclaimer on the Use of AI Tools in the Application Process** Please be aware that the creation and submission of application documents (e.g. CV, cover letter, case studies, etc.) using AI-powered tools is only permitted to a **limited extent**. _Our expectations:_ * Application documents must authentically reflect your own qualifications, personality, and motivation. * The use of AI for supportive purposes (e.g. spell-checking, improving wording) is acceptable. * **Fully generated application documents created by AI without personal adaptation or review are not permitted.** * Under no circumstances may **NVISO information, data, or documents** be uploaded to or processed by external AI tools. We reserve the right to exclude applications from the selection and interview process that are clearly created primarily or exclusively by AI and show no recognizable personal input. The purpose of this policy is to ensure a fair and transparent recruitment process and to obtain an authentic impression of our applicants.