Staff Security Operations Engineer
Canonical
Skill Required
Key highlights
- Role: Senior/staff Security Operations Engineer (SOC)
- Remote-first distributed work environment
- USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- Twice-yearly in-person team sprints
- Required: CS/STEM degree or compelling alternative path
Role overview
Canonical has opened several senior/staff Security Operations Engineer (SOC) positions, creating a new team reporting to the CISO. The goal is to build an entirely new level of assurance and observable rigour into the open source supply chain, monitoring Canonical's own estate and raising the robustness of the entire global Ubuntu estate through the work of this team. The Security Operations (SecOps) team is responsible for the design, implementation, and evolution of Canonical security practices, techniques, tools, systems, and policies. As the primary owner of strategy and practices for securing data, internal infrastructure, and build processes, the team ensures security threats are automatically identified, contained, and remediated while contributing to the security of the wider open source ecosystem.
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
- Design and implement technical security controls that ensure security threats are automatically identified, contained and remediated
- Contribute ideas and requirements for Canonical product security, improving the resilience and robustness of all Ubuntu customers and users subject to cyber attack
- Share knowledge through public presentations and industry events
- Share threat intelligence with the wider community or represent Canonical in sector-specific governance bodies
- Assuring the security and integrity of our own infrastructure and product deployments
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
- Proven personal interest and engagement in cyber attack and defence, and outstanding academic and career performance even if experience is limited (for junior roles)
Nice to have
- Deep experience defending highly contested critical assets and high-value cyber targets against advanced persistent threats and state-level actors (for high-end roles)
- 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
- Twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review (and more often for graduates and associates)
- 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
- Several senior/staff Security Operations Engineer (SOC) positions available
- The team reports to the CISO
- Looking for a range of experience in these positions
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide
- Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
- Publisher of Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- Recruits on a global basis and sets a very high standard for people joining the company
- Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
- Fosters a workplace free from discrimination
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