SECURITY ARCHITECT AT STRIVO LABS | ARCHITECT JOBS IN LAGOS

About Company:

At Strivo Labs, we are passionate about helping businesses scale with speed and precision. We specialize in providing end-to-end digital solutions, from custom design and MVP development to automation and content creation. Our mission is simple: to empower startups and established businesses to thrive in a competitive landscape. We do this by turning innovative ideas into actionable, growth-driving strategies. With a focus on efficiency and impact, our team of experts partners with you to create solutions that are tailored to your unique needs and goals. Whether you're looking to launch a new product, streamline operations, or amplify your brand, Strivo Labs is here to help you every step of the way. Let us take your business to the next level with cutting-edge technology and creative solutions that fuel success.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Description:

• The Security Architect is responsible for integrating Security Operations and Security Engineering activities within the MSSP.
• The role acts as the technical and operational bridge between SOC analysts, security engineers, and clients.
• This individual is hands-on, customer-facing, and capable of engaging directly with clients on-site to design, implement, and optimize security solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.
• The role ensures that SOC operations are effective, well-engineered, and aligned with client risk profiles, service commitments, and evolving threat landscapes.

Key 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 monitoring 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 improvement

Requirements:

• 7 – 10+ years in cybersecurity, with experience across SOC operations and security engineering.
• Experience working in an MSSP or multi-client environment.
• Demonstrated client-facing experience, including on-site implementations.
• Experience leading or guiding technical security teams.

Technical Expertise:

• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and SOC tooling.
• Proven experience in security engineering and SOC operations.
• Solid knowledge of cloud architecture and cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with automation and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Strong understanding of threat detection frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK).

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to operate confidently in client environments.
• Hands-on, problem-solving mindset with strong leadership presence.

Nice to Have:

• Experience designing multi-tenant SOC architectures.
• Cloud and security certifications (CISSP, GIAC, Azure/AWS Security, Splunk, Sentinel)

Salary

Application Closing Date: Not specified

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