Ralds & Agate (R&A) is an Organizational Effectiveness Firm focused on providing People and Process related solutions to businesses, communities and organizations within and outside Africa. We bring to the table a versatile & cumulative business and professional experience of over 4 decades. Multifaceted industry experience across Oil & Gas, Research & Technology, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Financial services etc.We work to support C suite clients to ensure that they derive value from their very valuable asset: their Employees. We are focused and committed towards building partnerships and mutually beneficial long term relationships with our clients.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: SOC Architect
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Mission / Purpose of the Job
- The SOC Architect is responsible for designing, integrating, and optimizing Security Operations Centre (SOC) operations and security engineering capabilities within the Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) environment.
- The role serves as the technical and operational bridge between SOC analysts, security engineers, and clients, ensuring that security solutions are well-architected, operationally effective, and aligned with client risk profiles, service commitments, and evolving threat landscapes.
Job Responsibilities
- Engage directly with clients on-site to assess environments, design security architectures, and implement security solutions.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor during onboarding, service reviews, and security improvement initiatives.
- Translate client business and risk requirements into effective SOC and security engineering solutions.
- Support pre-sales activities, technical scoping, and solution design where required.
- Provide technical and operational leadership to SOC analysts and responders, ensuring effective monitoring, detection, and incident response.
- Guide SOC workflows, escalation processes, and incident handling procedures.
- Ensure SOC operations align with SLAs, playbooks, and industry best practices.
- Act as an escalation point for complex incidents and high-impact security events.
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of SOC and security platforms, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, NDR, threat intelligence, and log management solutions.
- Oversee data onboarding, integrations, and tuning across client environments.
- Ensure SOC tooling is scalable, reliable, and engineered to support efficient operations.
- Drive automation and detection engineering to improve alert quality and reduce MTTR.
- Design and support security monitoring and controls for cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Integrate cloud logs, identity, network, and workload telemetry into SOC platforms.
- Advise clients on secure cloud architecture and monitor best practices.
- Bridge the gap between SOC operations and security engineering, ensuring tooling, detections, and automation support real operational needs.
- Work closely with engineers to translate analyst feedback into platform and detection improvements.
- Standardize configurations, architectures, and engineering practices across clients.
- Ensure SOC and engineering activities align with regulatory and contractual requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS).
- Support audits, assessments, and client assurance activities.
- Continuously evaluate emerging threats, technologies, and service improvements.
Job Specifications: Minimum & Preferred Requirements
Education / Business Degree:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
- Relevant professional certifications are an added advantage.
Work Experience:
- 7 – 10+ years experience in cybersecurity spanning SOC operations and security engineering.
- Proven experience working within an MSSP or multi-client security environment.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing security solutions in client environments.
- Experience leading or providing technical direction to security teams.
Competencies, Skills & Attributes:
Knowledge:
- SOC operations and service delivery models.
- Security architecture design and implementation.
- Threat detection frameworks, including MITRE ATT&CK.
- Cloud security architecture and monitoring.
- Regulatory and compliance frameworks.
Skills:
- SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and SOC tooling
- Security architecture & engineering
- Detection engineering & automation
- Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
- Cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Incident escalation & response
- Client engagement & technical advisory
- Stakeholder communication
Behavioral Attributes:
- Strong customer-facing presence
- Hands-on and solution-oriented mindset
- High ownership and accountability
- Analytical and detail-focused
- Ability to operate under pressure
- Collaborative and team-focused
- Professional integrity and confidence
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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