Staff Security Operations Engineer

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 remediation of security threats and cyber attacks
• Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives
• Drive threat modelling, table top exercises and SecOps practices across Engineering and IS
• Develop SecOps learning materials and publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations
• Identify, implement and track SecOps KPIs
• Plan and deliver SecOps work within Canonical's agile engineering practice

Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or compelling alternative path
• 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 with security risk management frameworks such as NIST CSF
• Experience with security standards such as ISO 27001

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a security operations team or SOC
• Experience in offensive or defensive security teams with hands-on ability
• Experience with state-actor and advanced persistent threats

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review and performance-driven bonus
• Recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Travel opportunities and Priority Pass for long haul company events

About the Company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.