Senior SOC Analyst: Complex Threat Detection & Mentoring

Eye Security; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Eye Security in the Netherlands is seeking an experienced SOC professional to lead escalations on complex alerts, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate response with the team. You will own client communications, manage workload and SLA adherence, mentor junior staff, and contribute to process improvements.

Fluent English is required; Dutch or German is preferred for client-facing exposure. Opportunity to influence cross-functional workflows, document findings clearly, and develop best

Qualifications

• 4+ years hands-on SOC/security operations experience.
• Proven ability to own and drive the team’s SLA/workload independently.
• Strong client communication in high-risk situations.
• Track record mentoring junior colleagues.
• Solid log analysis and EDR platform experience; familiarity with major cloud platforms.
• Language fluency matching the client base; English internally; Dutch and/or German exposure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security alerts and perform initial triage; classify (false positive, true positive, uncertain) and close out confirmed false positives correctly.
• Take full ownership of escalated and the most complex alerts: root-cause analysis, log correlation, validating assessments, determining next steps.
• Own client communication for assigned alerts, including difficult or high-risk escalations from more junior analysts, to a consistent quality standard.
• Independently execute containment actions across impact levels; approve escalations from more junior analysts.
• Own the team’s overall workload and service-level adherence day to day; pull in support or escalate when targets are at risk.
• Answer cross-department questions on security operations; improve documentation and working instructions for junior levels.
• Mentor junior and mid-level colleagues.
• Identify patterns across multiple cases and escalations that point to systemic detection gaps or false-positive sources, and turn them into structured input for the detection content owners — not one-off flags.
• Contribute to team projects and process/efficiency improvements.

Skills

SOC operations

SLA management

Client communication

Mentoring

Log analysis

EDR experience

SIEM familiarity

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

English

Dutch/German language

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Cloud platforms

Job description

Eye Security in the Netherlands is seeking an experienced SOC professional to lead escalations on complex alerts, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate response with the team. You will own client communications, manage workload and SLA adherence, mentor junior staff, and contribute to process improvements.

Fluent English is required; Dutch or German is preferred for client-facing exposure. Opportunity to influence cross-functional workflows, document findings clearly, and develop best