Staff Security Operations Engineer
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- Range of levels from junior to senior/staff
- USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
- Remote-first / Distributed work environment
- STEM degree or compelling alternative path required
Role overview
Canonical is opening several senior/staff Security Operations Engineer (SOC) positions to form a new team reporting to the CISO. The team's mission is to build a new level of assurance and observable rigour into the open source supply chain, securing Canonical's own estate and internal infrastructure while raising the robustness of the global Ubuntu estate and the wider open source ecosystem. The SecOps team is responsible for the design, implementation, and evolution of Canonical security practices, techniques, tools, systems, and policies. They design technical security controls to automatically identify, contain, and remediate threats, and contribute to the resilience of all Ubuntu customers and users subject to cyber attack.
Responsibilities
- Implement and evolve Canonical's SecOps security standards and playbooks
- Analyse and improve Canonical's security architecture
- Evaluate, select and implement new security tools and practices
- Identify, contain and guide the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks
- Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical SecOps practice
- Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives
- Drive threat modelling, table top exercises and other SecOps practices across Engineering, IS and Canonical
- Develop Canonical SecOps learning and development materials
- Publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations
- Identify, implement and track SecOps KPIs
- Plan and deliver SecOps work in the framework of Canonical's agile engineering practice
- Work with Security leadership to present information and influence change
- Share knowledge through public presentations and industry events
- Share threat intelligence with the wider community or represent Canonical in sector-specific governance bodies
Requirements
- An exceptional academic track record
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security
- Expertise in threat modelling and risk management frameworks
- Knowledge of security architecture and market-leading security tools
- Experience contributing to, and consuming, threat intelligence feeds
- Experience in security risk management frameworks such as NIST CSF
- Experience with security standards such as ISO 27001
Nice to have
- Experience in a security operations team or a security operations centre (SOC)
- Experience in offensive or defensive security teams with hands-on ability
- Experience with state-actor and other advanced persistent threats
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional details
- Roles range from junior roles for exceptional individuals with proven personal interest in cyber attack and defence to senior/staff positions requiring deep experience defending highly contested critical assets and high-value cyber targets against advanced persistent threats and state-level actors.
- Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
- Originally posted on Himalayas