Security & Ai Engineer

SecWise is a fast-growing Belgian security scale-up. Our Services Tribe runs a managed SOC for a growing base of customers, backed by an Engineering Chapter that builds the automation and AI capabilities behind it. That chapter is where you come in.
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This is not a maintenance job. You build things that make the SOC smarter and faster: automations, AI-driven capabilities, and production-ready tooling out of promising PoCs.
The roleYou deliver on the engineering roadmap of our Services Tribe. You build SOC automations, turn PoCs into production-ready capabilities and build out our AI engineering projects. You report to the Engineering Lead.

What you'll do
Contribute to and execute the engineering roadmapBuild SOC automation capabilities that reduce manual work for our analystsTake PoCs from the Engineering Lead through to production-ready capabilityBuild and implement AI engineering projects, from agentic workflows to AI-assisted triage and reportingWork mostly on internal projects for the SecWise SOC, occasionally on projects for a customerWork closely with the SOC team so what you build actually lands in daily operationsWho you areBachelor in Applied Information Technologies or equivalentPreferably 2 years of experience in security engineering, automation or a related field; strong recent graduateswith something to show are welcome to applyYou build: at least basic coding skills and understanding (Python, PowerShell or similar) and the drive to automate what others do by handWe use Gen AI for code writing; you don't need towriteeverything from scratch, but you must be able to read, review and correct generated code, and xdkqlui know when it's wrongGenuinely interested in AI and its application in security operations; you have experimented with LLMs, agents or AI tooling beyond just using a chatbotExperience with the Microsoft security stack (Sentinel, Defender XDR, KQL, Logic Apps) is a big plus, but not a hard requirementYou finish things: a PoC is not done until it runs in productionFluent in Dutch and EnglishPractical3 days a week in our office in LeuvenScale-up culture with a young, driven team and room to shape your own role