Job Description
A leadership role managing Canonical's Security Operations team, responsible for developing and implementing security strategies, tools, and policies to protect the company's infrastructure and products, while contributing to the open source security community.
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 automatically identify, contain, and remediate threats.
- Develop security standards, playbooks, and training materials; facilitate SecOps training across the organization.
- Analyze and improve Canonical's security architecture and infrastructure.
- Evaluate, select, and implement security tools and practices.
- Identify, contain, and guide the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks.
- Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives and share knowledge through industry engagement.
- Drive threat modeling, tabletop exercises, and other SecOps practices across teams.
- Publish security-related content such as blog posts, whitepapers, and conference presentations.
- Plan and deliver SecOps work within the company's agile engineering framework.
- Collaborate with security leadership to present metrics and influence security improvements.
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
- Expertise 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 an alternative educational or career 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 to be within an agile engineering framework)
Work environment perks (collaborative team, leadership development, contribution to open source community)
Additional benefits (opportunities for publishing blog posts, whitepapers, conference presentations; involvement in threat intelligence initiatives; professional development through training and mentoring)
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