Job Description
A leadership role overseeing the Security Operations team responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving security practices, tools, and policies to protect Canonical's infrastructure, products, and the wider open source ecosystem. The position involves managing security architecture, threat mitigation, team development, and contributing to industry security initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and lead the Security Operations (SecOps) team responsible for security strategy, practices, tools, systems, and policies.
- Design, implement, and evolve technical security controls to detect, contain, and remediate security threats.
- Develop security standards, playbooks, and training materials for the SecOps team and broader organization.
- Analyze and improve Canonical's security architecture and infrastructure.
- Evaluate, select, and implement security tools and practices.
- Identify and guide the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks.
- Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives and share knowledge through industry events and publications.
- Drive threat modeling, security exercises, and SecOps practices across engineering and security teams.
- Define and track SecOps KPIs to measure security performance.
- Collaborate with security leadership to influence security strategies and initiatives.
Requirements
- Proven track record of mitigating with advanced threat actors and nation state threats
- Expert technical understanding of Security Operations Centers (SOCs) from the ground up
- In depth knowledge of SOC architecture and design including strategies for logging, firewalls, network segmentation, honeypots etc.
- Someone who understands how the SOC works not just how to use it
- Expert in Linux security
- Ability to define, implement, automate and measure effective incident response playbooks
- 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
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- 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
- Leadership and management ability
- Excellent business English writing and presentation skills
- Confidence to report security performance metrics with accountability for accuracy and completeness
Benefits & Perks
Work schedule (implied flexible or based on agile practices)
Work environment perks (collaborative team, leadership development, contribution to open source community)
Additional benefits (opportunities for public speaking, industry event participation, publishing whitepapers and blog posts, influence on security standards)
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