Senior Cybersecurity Specialist - SOC, Security Operations (f/m/x)

Eye Security

ABOUT EYE SECURITY Eye Security is providing cybersecurity with embedded cyber insurance solutions for organizations in Europe. Headquartered in the Netherlands, we are already over 170 FTEs and continue to grow internationally. We combine cutting-edge technology with hands-on expertise to detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats in real time. Our team brings together talent from intelligence, military, tech, and consulting backgrounds — all united by a shared mission: to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to every business, not just the big players. At Eye, you’ll work on projects with an international footprint, solving real-world challenges and helping to build a safer digital future for our clients. ABOUT THIS ROLE We are looking for a Staff Cyber Security Specialist (f/m/x) to strengthen our Incident Response and Security Operations capabilities. This is a senior individual contributor role for an experienced incident responder who enjoys solving complex security challenges and helping organizations navigate critical cyber incidents. In this role, you will lead incident response engagements from investigation through recovery, working directly with customers during some of their most challenging moments. You will act as a trusted technical authority within the team, mentor less experienced responders, and help drive improvements across our security operations. Unlike traditional consultancy environments, you will operate within a product-driven MDR organization serving more than 1,000 customers across Europe. This gives you the opportunity to work at scale, leverage large security datasets, and contribute improvements that strengthen protections across our entire customer base. You will work with state-of-the-art security tooling while collaborating with security professionals from intelligence, military, consulting, national CERT, and technology backgrounds. Alongside operational response work, you'll have opportunities to contribute to internal research initiatives, Bug Bounty Fridays, Capture The Flag events, and other technical projects that help push our capabilities forward. This position is based in the Netherlands and reports directly to the Director of Security Operations. WHAT YOU WILL DO * Act as a leading technical authority within Security Operations, taking ownership of strategic improvement initiatives and helping shape the future direction of our incident response and security operations capabilities. * Lead cyber incident response engagements from intake through recovery. * Act as the technical lead during investigations, coordinating response activities and driving outcomes. * Conduct forensic investigations to determine attack scope, root cause, and impact. * Support customers during active cybersecurity incidents and provide clear technical guidance. * Support MDR and Security Operations activities when not engaged in active incident response cases. * Work with internal and external stakeholders, including management, legal counsel, law enforcement, and regulators when required. * Mentor junior and medior responders and help raise the technical maturity of the team. * Contribute to the continuous improvement of incident response methodologies, playbooks, and operational processes. WHAT YOU WILL NEED * 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity with significant hands-on experience in Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Security Operations, or related disciplines. * Proven ability to independently lead and manage cybersecurity incidents end-to-end. * In-depth knowledge of Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, file systems, security architecture, and attack surfaces. * Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, networking, and network security principles. * Experience with EDR platforms such as CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, or similar technologies. * Knowledge of cloud environments and cloud security concepts across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. * Strong investigative and analytical skills with experience collecting and analysing evidence during security incidents. * Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Experience mentoring or coaching other security professionals. * Strong ownership, collaboration, and communication skills. * Fluency in English (internal working language) * Fluency in Dutch (required for client communication) Nice-to-have * Experience developing scripts, tools, or automations to support investigations and response activities. * Experience conducting technical security research. * Knowledge of threat actors and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). * Experience working in a CERT, CSIRT, MDR, or DFIR environment. WHAT WE OFFER * A meaningful mission: protect organizations across Europe from real-world cyber threats * Work with top-tier professionals from national CERTs, intelligence agencies, and leading tech backgrounds * A remote-friendly culture with quarterly meetups and annual company retreats (in Spain, Portugal, Italy…) * Thursday socials to stay connected * A generous time-off policy, including wellbeing and volunteering days

Eye Security

Your role at Eye Security * You will recruit, onboard, and manage relationships with new and existing insurance broker partners in order to sell our Cyber Insurance solution in collaboration with insurance brokers. * You will serve as the primary point of contact for broker accounts, ensuring satisfaction and alignment with company goals. * You will provide the basis for successful collaboration and ongoing development of our business relationships with our partners. * From drafting contracts to closing deals, you provide professional support to our partners. * You will develop and deliver presentations, webinars, and resources to enhance broker effectiveness. * You will present our solutions at trade fairs and events. * You will develop close and cooperative partnership s with your colleagues from Sales and Marketing. What you will need * You are experienced in distribution, marketplace, insurance broker or reseller partnerships. * You have analytical skills and a solid strategic planning ability. * You have an entrepreneurial, hands-on mindset and are a team player, striving to find solutions. * You are fluent in Dutch and English (spoken and written). * You have strong relationship-building, presentation, communication, and negotiation skills. * You are used to working with ambitious targets. * You have or would like to gain understanding of cybersecurity landscape and are able to integrate it into partner / client / service models. * You are willing to travel up to 60% of the time. What we offer * You will become part of one of the fastest growing cybersecurity scale-ups in Europe. * You will play a key role in building an innovative cybersecurity product line where we combine effective cybersecurity with cyber insurance on a global scale. Therefore, you will have a lot of resources you can utilize to help Eye Security grow. * An attractive remuneration package and bonus. * Flexible working hours. * Car allowance. * Choose your own device: MacBook or Dell laptop, iPhone or Samsung work phone. * Your personal and professional development is top of mind here at Eye. We will actively help you in your growth path. * You will be working with top world-class cybersecurity specialists in our CERT. * Regular company-wide get-togethers, giving you the opportunity to collaborate in person and build strong team connections.

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People Business Partner Most HRBP roles ask you to run processes someone else built. This one asks you to build them, with managers who are still learning to lead and specialists who know exactly how rare they are. If you need a mature organization around you to do your best work, this isn't it. If you get energy from building one, keep reading! About Eye Security Eye Security is a fast-growing international cybersecurity scale-up providing cutting-edge security solutions with embedded cyber insurance to organizations across Europe. Headquartered in the Netherlands, we're over 170 FTEs and continuing to grow internationally. We combine advanced technology with hands-on expertise to detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats in real time. Our team brings together talent from intelligence, military, tech, and consulting backgrounds all united by one mission: making enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to every business, not just the big players. The role You'll be the People Business Partner for our core business: security operations, incident response, customer support & onboarding, and project management. It's the most varied population in the company working students running shift rosters next to deeply specialized senior engineers, and managers at very different stages of their leadership journey. That mix is exactly why this role needs presence more than years. You'll coach first-time managers on the basics one hour and challenge C-level on a strategic call the next. You'll need to be comfortable doing both and to enjoy it. And here's what makes this role bigger than the title: alongside the partnering work, you'll get to build things most HRBPs only inherit. Redesigning our performance cycle, rethinking benefits, shaping how development works here. You'll lead them yourself, start to finish, and see them land in the business you partner with every day. What you'll do - Be the trusted partner for leaders in security operations and customer support coaching, challenging, and advising at every level of maturity, up to and including the executive team - Be visible. This is an office-first organization where face-to-face matters you'll be on the floor in The Hague, listening to what's actually going on, not partnering from a distance - Build and lead People projects end to end think redesigning the performance cycle,refreshing benefits, or building a development approach from scratch from first idea to something that sticks, while your HRBP work keeps running - Handle the real side of employee relations: complex cases, conduct issues, working with external counsel when needed. You've seen the ugly cases and you don't flinch - Apply Dutch labor law hands-on in day-to-day decisions, and know when to bring in an expert - Work as part of a small, tight People team everyone picks things up, and so will you What we're looking for - HRBP experience in a scaling environment - Strong stakeholder management and the presence to challenge back including senior leadership without becoming the policy police - A track record of hands-on project leadership: you've owned People initiatives from design to rollout yourself, not coordinated them from the sidelines - Genuinely comfortable with ambiguity: our problems don't come with a manual, and you'd rather solve them creatively than wait for one - Hands-on, working knowledge of Dutch labor law - Fluent Dutch (native not required) and professional English - Based in the Netherlands and happy with office-first: minimum 1 day per week in The Hague, ideally 3 What we offer - Real impact: help build the People foundations of a company protecting businesses across Europe, alongside colleagues from intelligence, military, tech and consulting backgrounds - Tuesday lunches and Thursday borrels weekly founder's update included - Quarterly get-togethers and an annual company-wide retreat (Spain, Portugal, Italy…) - Generous time off, including wellbeing days, floating holidays and a volunteering day - Competitive base salary and company stock (ESOP) - MacBook Pro or Dell XPS, plus iPhone or Samsung