Cybersecurity Engineer

Location: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Department: International BU

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

Description

At Uni Systems, we are working towards turning digital visions into reality. We are continuously growing and we are looking for a Cybersecurity Engineer to join our UniQue team.

What will you be doing in this role?

• Creation of custom internal scripts for automating tasks, analyzing data, and integrating APIs to connect security platforms and infrastructure tools.
• Deployment, management, and hardening of servers based on Linux, Windows, and VMware ESXi technologies.
• Deployment, configuration, and maintenance of network devices (switches, routers, firewalls, and VPN gateways).
• Preparation of comprehensive vulnerability assessment reports, remediation plans, dashboards, metric reports, and operational procedures.
• Management of vulnerability management lifecycle processes, including identification, assessment, prioritization, remediation tracking, follow-up, and verification across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Coordination and review of remediation efforts across multiple teams, ensuring timely patching, configuration changes, and security updates.
• Reporting on task progress, identified vulnerabilities, high-risk assets, risk exposure, actively exploited threats, ticket trends, KPIs, and other relevant security metrics to peers, stakeholders, and management.
• Interaction with IT infrastructure teams, development teams, cloud operations teams, the Security Operations Center (SOC), compliance officers, and external vendors to ensure coordinated and effective remediation efforts.
• Designing, orchestrating, and deploying infrastructure and services to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of cyber threat landscape management services and data.
• Writing documentation to communicate solutions to engineers and users.
• Solving problems related to mission-critical services, with a focus on using automation to prevent recurrence, with the goal of automating responses to all non-exceptional service conditions and building better technologies rather than relying on manual resolution.

Requirements

What do you need to succeed in this position?

• Post-secondary education of at least 2 years and a minimum of 10 years of IT experience, including at least 5 years of experience relevant to this position.
• Deep expertise in Linux, Windows, and VMware ESXi server administration and management.
• Strong programming and scripting skills for automation, secure software development, data parsing, API integration, and workflow automation and Experience with Python, Bash, Java, Go, or Rust is considered an asset.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, firewalls, VPNs, network protocols, encryption standards, authentication protocols, and secure communication techniques.
•  Experience deploying, managing, and securing cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OVH), including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and the integration of security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise vulnerability scanners (Rapid7 Nexpose, Nessus), SIEM platforms (Splunk), and ticketing systems (, Jira).
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, cyber intelligence, vulnerability management, and security assessment methodologies.
• Experience implementing integrations across multiple technologies using APIs and familiarity with message broker platforms such as Apache Kafka, AWS SQS, Google Pub/Sub, and RabbitMQ.
• Ability to adapt to rapidly evolving technologies in hybrid cloud environments, containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes), and emerging cyber threats.
• Capacity to manage multiple large-scale projects simultaneously.
• Certifications: At least one cybersecurity certification and one certification in engineering, incident response, architecture, cybersecurity solution design and implementation, governance, product-specific technologies, programming languages, or another equivalent discipline (subject to approval by the Contracting Authority) are mandatory.
• Ability to understand, speak, and write English at a C1 level.
• Knowledge of French and other EU languages will be considered an asset.

At Uni Systems, we are providing equal employment opportunities and banning any form of discrimination on grounds of gender, religion, race, color, nationality, disability, social class, political beliefs, age, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristics. Take a look at our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Policy for more information.