Security Operations Center Analyst

SOC Engineer / Cyber Analyst

Freelance -12 month mission - Must be Based in Belgium & French / Dutch Speaking.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Infrastructure Security Analyst, you will play a key role in the organisations Security Operations function, with a strong focus on SOC maturity, detection engineering, threat validation, and continuous improvement of security monitoring capabilities.

You will lead the investigation and response to cyber security events across their infrastructure, partner ecosystem, and customer environments, while enhancing detection coverage, automation, and defensive controls. As a senior technical contributor within the SOC, you will work closely with infrastructure, cloud, and engineering teams to strengthen their overall security posture.

Your responsibilities

• Lead advanced monitoring, detection, and investigation of security events across enterprise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Drive the development, tuning, and optimization of SIEM detections, correlation rules, alerting logic, and SOC use cases.
• Support threat hunting, threat validation, and security testing initiatives to continuously improve detection coverage and response effectiveness.
• Contribute to detection engineering initiatives by developing and maintaining custom rules, signatures, and automation capabilities.
• Coordinate and support incident response and forensic investigations, including high-impact and complex security incidents.
• Assess emerging threats, attack techniques, and vulnerabilities to strengthen SOC capabilities and defensive controls.
• Ensure the reliability and effectiveness of SOC tooling, monitoring platforms, and detection pipelines.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and cloud teams to improve security architecture, logging, and operational resilience.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance on operational security processes, controls, and best practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of SOC strategy, standards, and operational procedures.