Architect, Security Solutions

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Security Solutions Architect (SSA) role within Belden's Innovation organization is a technical expert and a resource for our teams as they produce security solutions for various markets, applications, and use cases. The Architect works to assess, design, develop, build, and validate solutions by leveraging in-depth knowledge about Belden's portfolio and partner products/solutions while focusing on enhancements to Belden's security portfolio. The SSA is expected to lead efforts in developing use cases and documenting best practices and be a subject matter expert (SME) on multi-disciplinary teams (focused on cyber) while collaborating with the Security Solutions Manager to ensure partners are carefully introduced to our organization.

Innovation and sharing technology insights both internally and externally is part of their daily tasks as well as collaboration with SMEs in the Belden Solutions team, Belden Platform team and Belden's R&D team.

Key Accountabilities

* Design security architectures for key use cases surrounding OT security while maximizing the use of Belden products and services (e.g., network segmentation, secure remote access, secure industrial networking, asset visibility/monitoring, hardening, zero trust, threats and anomaly detection, network access control, etc.)

* Produce reference architectures, validated designs, bill-of-materials, and configuration standards aligned to customer requirements and Belden products/services capabilities.

* Defined integration patterns across networking, security, and management platforms with focus on OT security related to focused industry segments (e.g., identity, logging, SIEM, monitoring, certificate/management, network segmentation and cloaking, intrusion detection systems, network access control, etc.)

* Build and maintain lab environments to validate solution performance, resilience, and security controls based on the concepts the group will define as key use cases to explore for OT security solutions.

* Create implementation guides, configuration templates, and best-practice documentation to ensure repeatability and consistency across all Belden served regions and industries.

* Support solution certification/assurance activities as needed (e.g., IEC 62443, NERC CIP, etc.)

* Partner with sales and technical teams to scope requirements, design solutions, and support PoCs for strategic opportunities.

* Lead technical workshops and architecture reviews with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.

* Capture deployment feedback and translate it into product/solution improvement recommendations.

* Provide technical input to Product Management roadmaps (feature gaps, integration needs, interoperability requirements).

* Collaborate with R&D on defect triage, performance tuning, and new capability validation, including the work to make partner solutions sellable under Belden's part numbers (aka. productization).

* Coordinate with Services/Support to ensure deliverability, support readiness, and clear escalation paths as necessary to sustain the Security Solutions portfolio's lifecycle.

* Develop enablement material and deliver training for sales engineers, partners and customers.

* Promote secure architecture principles (least privilege, defense-in-depth, segmentation, logging/monitoring, patching) and align designs to applicable security standards and frameworks.

Education & Experience

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.

* 5+ years in security architecture, network architecture, solutions engineering, or security consulting.

* Strong networking fundamentals (switching/routing, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VPNs, firewalls) and security fundamentals (identity, certificates, logging, vulnerability management).

* Experience in creating technical design documentation and leading technical discussions with customers.

* Ability to work across teams and influence outcomes without direct authority.

* OT/ICS security experience (industrial networks, Purdue model, segmentation strategies, remote access patterns for plants, SIEM, etc.)

* Familiarity with IEC 62443, NIST SP 800, and common compliance/customer audit expectations.

* Experience with SIEM integrations (Syslog, Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar), NAC/identity, IDS use cases (Dragos, Claroty, Nozomi Networks, etc.) and…