About this role
<p><strong>Innovation Starts With You</strong></p> <p><strong><br></strong>Propel your career at Belden, where innovation creates possibilities—for our people, our customers, and the communities we serve. We connect people, information, and ideas to solve the world’s most complex connectivity challenges, turning curiosity into meaningful impact. Here, you’ll take on work that challenges you, supports your growth, and empowers you to shape what’s next. You’ll collaborate with global teams, gain diverse perspectives, and contribute to solutions that extend beyond our business—creating value in the world around us.</p> <p> </p> <p>Together, we are shaping the future of digitization and paving the way for the next generation of innovation.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11.0px"> </p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;text-align:justify">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.</span></p> <h1 style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 4.5pt 0.3in;text-indent:-0.3in;line-height:120%;vertical-align:middle;font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#800ee4;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Key Accountabilities</span></h1> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Produce reference architectures, validated designs, bill-of-materials, and configuration standards aligned to customer requirements and Belden products/services capabilities.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Create implementation guides, configuration templates, and best-practice documentation to ensure repeatability and consistency across all Belden served regions and industries.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Support solution certification/assurance activities as needed (e.g., IEC 62443, NERC CIP, etc.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Partner with sales and technical teams to scope requirements, design solutions, and support PoCs for strategic opportunities.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lead technical workshops and architecture reviews with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Capture deployment feedback and translate it into product/solution improvement recommendations.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Provide technical input to Product Management roadmaps (feature gaps, integration needs, interoperability requirements).</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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).</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Coordinate with Services/Support to ensure deliverability, support readiness, and clear escalation paths as necessary to sustain the Security Solutions portfolio’s lifecycle.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Develop enablement material and deliver training for sales engineers, partners and customers.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Promote secure architecture principles (least privilege, defense-in-depth, segmentation, logging/monitoring, patching) and align designs to applicable security standards and frameworks.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Belden Sans Light', sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Belden Sans Light', sans-serif"> </p> <h2 style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 4.5pt 0.6in;text-indent:-0.4in;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Belden Sans Light', sans-serif;color:#2b3846"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Education & Experience</span></h2> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5+ years in security architecture, network architecture, solutions engineering, or security consulting.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Strong networking fundamentals (switching/routing, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VPNs, firewalls) and security fundamentals (identity, certificates, logging, vulnerability management).</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Experience in creating technical design documentation and leading technical discussions with customers.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ability to work across teams and influence outcomes without direct authority.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">OT/ICS security experience (industrial networks, Purdue model, segmentation strategies, remote access patterns for plants, SIEM, etc.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Familiarity with IEC 62443, NIST SP 800, and common compliance/customer audit expectations.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Experience with SIEM integrations (Syslog, Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar), NAC/identity, IDS use cases (Dragos, Claroty, Nozomi Networks, etc.) and zero trust concepts.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Certifications (nice to have): CISSP, GICSP, CCNP/CCIE, IEC 62443, or similar.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 18.7pt;text-indent:-9.35pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Belden Sans Light', sans-serif"> </p> <h2 style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 4.5pt 0.6in;text-indent:-0.4in;line-height:120%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Belden Sans Light', sans-serif;color:#2b3846"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Essentials</span></h2> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required to perform the duties of the role (30% frequency of travel)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Computer literacy (MS Office, Visio, SharePoint) plus proficiency with platforms for CRM (e.g. Salesforce), ticket management (e.g. Jira) and knowledge sharing (e.g. Confluence)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">English fluency to business standard essential.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Demonstrate Belden values</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Belden Sans Light', sans-serif"> </p> <h1 style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 4.5pt 0.3in;text-indent:-0.3in;line-height:120%;vertical-align:middle;font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#800ee4;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:black;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Role Critical Competencies</span></h1> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Practical, supportable architecture mindset</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Structured troubleshooting and validation approach</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Clear documentation and communication skills</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Customer-facing confidence and executive-ready summaries</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Strong collaboration and prioritization</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Applicants can expect a base compensation range of $140,000 - $170,000 annually, plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role. This is the reasonable estimate that Belden believes it might pay for this job based on applicable circumstances at the time of posting. Belden may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law, and commensurate with the applicant’s experience, qualifications, and geographical location. </span></em></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></em></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Belden also offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability!</span></em></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">#LI - REMOTE #LI - HH1</span></em></p><p><strong>Let’s Create Possibilities Together.</strong></p> <p><strong><br></strong>Join a global community shaping the future of intelligent connectivity. At Belden, you’ll help push the boundaries of technology and write the next chapter of innovation, creating possibilities for your career, your future, and the world around you.</p> <p>These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.</p>