IT Security Operations Lead

Purpose and Mission

As a Security operations lead, you will be managing our security partners in the area of security tooling and security incident management. You will be reporting into the CISO team management.

Key Activities and Responsibilities

Security tooling

• Lead manages the technical security controls together with the outsourcing partners.
• Ensures coverage & compliancy of all security tooling, ensures all technical security tooling are implemented as per industry best practices, ensures the technical policies are up to date.
• Lead ensures lifecycle management of the security tooling is being done and initiates / tracks the necessary projects to perform updates /upgrades / replacement of tooling.
• Performs continuous improvement in terms of people / processes / tools with the respective partners to ensure the effectiveness of the security tooling / security incident management services.  (closes the feedback loop)
• Lead supports the technical risk assessments on security tooling & makes sure identified gaps are closed/ remediated.
• Lead monitors the required KPIs and reports out to the CISO management.
• Lead highlights identified risks to security risk management.

Security incident Management

• Lead manages the outsourcing partners working in the area of security incident management, tracking SLAs and ensuring effective detection & response.
• Lead monitors the required KPIs and reports out to the CISO management.
• supports assessments such as table top exercises, red teaming and purple teaming exercises to ensure readiness in the area of security incident management.
• Ensures evidences can be produced on effective security incident management to support compliancy & cyber risk insurance processes.
• Performs continuous improvement in terms of people / processes / tools with the respective partners to ensure the effectiveness of the security incident management service.
• captures lessons learned from security incidents and highlights required improvements to respective stakeholders.
• Works closely with the infrastructure & business teams to perform recovery.

AI‑Enabled Cyber Defense

• Lead the secure adoption of AI and autonomous agents across Bekaert, ensuring protection of models, data, and production‑critical AI workloads while aligning with Bekaert’s security framework and responsible‑AI principles.
•  Integrate AI‑driven detection, automation, and analytics into Security Operations to enhance SOC efficiency, improve threat visibility, and accelerate incident response with GenAI‑enabled support.

About You

• Strong & broad experience in security tooling (6-8+ years). Amongst others but not limited to endpoint security (hardening / EDR / ...) , cloud security , web & content filtering , email security , network detection & response , decoy tooling , PKI

• Bachelor degree in IT and/or security or similar through experience and has good infrastructure / application architecture landscape insights (prior exposure to infrastructure / applications)
• Prior experience with security incident management as a security analyst or security lead within a SOC (blue team), familiar with SIEM / soar tooling / use case management
• Strong expertise in applying AI and automation within Security Operations—combining AI security, AI‑driven threat detection, and risk‑based governance to securely operationalize AI systems and enhance SOC effectiveness.
• Prior experience with management of outsourcing partners / security operations. 
• Proven experience with project management in the area of selection & deployment of security tooling
• Knowledge of NIST CSF / iso 27001 frameworks / other relevant security frameworks
• Since cyber security & cyber threat landscape is evolving quickly , interested in broader security topics and tracking evolutions continuously.

• Team Management (managing the outsourcing partners), leadership & service management.
• Good written and verbal communication skills (English)