Vulnerability & Incident Response SOC Expert

About the Company

We are a leading global baking and food company with operations across multiple countries and a strong portfolio of well-known brands. As our business continues to grow and digitalize, cybersecurity is a critical priority in protecting our people, manufacturing operations, supply chain, customer data, and global IT environment.

We are looking for an experienced Vulnerability & Incident Response SOC Expert to join our cybersecurity team in Brussels and strengthen our Security Operations and cyber-resilience capabilities.

The Role

As a Vulnerability & Incident Response SOC Expert, you will play a key role in identifying, assessing, and reducing cybersecurity risks across our global environment. You will work closely with the Security Operations Center (SOC), infrastructure and cloud teams, application owners, and regional IT teams to detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents.

You will also lead and coordinate vulnerability management activities, helping the organization prioritize remediation based on business risk and threat intelligence.

The role is highly hands-on and requires strong technical expertise, analytical thinking, and the ability to operate effectively during security incidents.

Key Responsibilities

Vulnerability Management

• Own and continuously improve the organization's global vulnerability management process.
  
• Identify, assess, prioritize, and track vulnerabilities across infrastructure, endpoints, applications, cloud environments, and network devices.
  
• Analyze vulnerability findings and translate technical risks into clear business priorities.
  
• Coordinate remediation activities with IT, infrastructure, application, and cloud teams.
  
• Monitor vulnerability remediation against agreed SLAs and risk thresholds.
  
• Support vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, security assessments, and remediation validation.
  
• Develop vulnerability management metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting.
  
• Stay informed about emerging vulnerabilities, CVEs, exploits, and relevant threat intelligence.
  

Security Incident Response

• Act as a senior technical expert during cybersecurity incidents.
  
• Investigate and respond to security alerts and incidents in collaboration with the SOC.
  
• Perform incident triage, analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery activities.
  
• Investigate indicators of compromise, suspicious activity, malware, phishing, credential compromise, and unauthorized access.
  
• Support digital forensics and root-cause analysis where required.
  
• Coordinate incident response across global IT, infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams.
  
• Contribute to incident response playbooks, procedures, and tabletop exercises.
  
• Participate in an on-call or escalation rotation when required.
  
• Produce detailed post-incident reports and recommend corrective and preventive measures.
  

SOC & Security Operations

• Work closely with internal and/or outsourced SOC teams to improve detection and response capabilities.
  
• Analyze security events and correlate information from SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, identity, network, and cloud security platforms.
  
• Help improve detection rules, use cases, alert quality, and incident response processes.
  
• Support threat hunting and proactive identification of potential compromises.
  
• Evaluate emerging security threats and recommend appropriate controls.
  

ISO 27001 & Security Governance

• Support the maintenance and