Security Operations Center Analyst – Freelance (12‑month)

About the role

We are looking for a senior Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst on a 12‑month freelance mission based in Belgium. The role focuses on advancing our SOC maturity, detection engineering, threat validation and continuous improvement of security monitoring across enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead advanced monitoring, detection and investigation of security events across the infrastructure, cloud and partner ecosystems.
• Develop, tune and optimise SIEM detections, correlation rules, alerting logic and SOC use cases.
• Support threat‑hunting, threat‑validation and security‑testing initiatives to improve detection coverage.
• Design and maintain custom detection rules, signatures and automation scripts.
• Coordinate incident response and forensic investigations for high‑impact security incidents.
• Assess emerging threats and attack techniques to strengthen defensive controls.
• Ensure reliability of SOC tooling, monitoring platforms and detection pipelines.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and cloud teams to enhance security architecture, logging and operational resilience.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a senior SOC analyst or security engineer.
• Strong background in detection engineering, threat hunting and incident response.
• Ability to work independently and guide cross‑functional teams.
• Fluent in French or Dutch, with strong English communication skills.

Required skills

• SIEM platforms and correlation rule development
• Detection engineering and custom rule creation
• Threat hunting and threat validation
• Incident response and forensic investigation
• Cloud security concepts and infrastructure monitoring
• Automation scripting for security workflows
• Security monitoring and logging best practices