Our client, a large business consulting partner, is looking to hire a Senior Cybersecurity Architect with a specialization of Agentic SOC Modernization & AI-Enabled Security Operations for a 3-6 month remote contract to hire. The consultant will serve as a Senior Cybersecurity Architect to help clients transform traditional Security Operations Centers (SOCs) into intelligent, AI-enabled, and automation-driven security operations programs. This role focuses on designing and implementing modern SOC capabilities across people, process, technology, data, governance, and operating models.
The ideal candidate will lead SOC modernization initiatives, architect AI-assisted and agentic security workflows, optimize SIEM/SOAR platforms, improve detection and response capabilities, and advise executive stakeholders on security operations strategy. This individual will help organizations reduce risk, improve analyst productivity, strengthen cyber resilience, and enable measurable security outcomes through automation, analytics, and advanced security operations practices.
Required Skills:
- 7–10+ years of experience in security architecture, security operations, SOC modernization, SIEM/SOAR engineering, detection engineering, incident response, security automation, or cybersecurity consulting.
- Experience designing, implementing, or modernizing SOC capabilities in enterprise, regulated, or critical infrastructure environments.
- Strong understanding of modern SOC operating models, including detection engineering, alert triage, investigation workflows, threat hunting, incident response, case management, escalation processes, and security operations governance.
- Experience designing AI-enabled or automation-enabled security operations capabilities, including analyst assist, enrichment, alert summarization, workflow orchestration, response automation, or agentic SOC use cases.
- Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, XDR, security telemetry, log ingestion, data normalization, correlation, enrichment, detection content, case management, and incident response workflows.
- Familiarity with enterprise security technologies such as EDR/XDR, IAM, PAM, cloud security, network security, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, DLP, ITSM, and SecOps workflow platforms.
- Experience integrating security data from cloud, endpoint, identity, network, application, SaaS, infrastructure, and third-party sources.
- Ability to design SOC operating models, analyst workflows, escalation paths, governance processes, control points, and performance metrics.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled security operations, automation, analytics, responsible AI, and operational governance considerations.
- Experience with governance, risk, and compliance frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, NERC CIP, IEC 62443, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS, or related standards.
- Strong executive communication and consulting skills.
- Willingness to travel for client engagements.