Canonical
Senior Security Operations Engineer
Employer explicitly allows international or location-independent remote work.
Worldwide
Employer listed it 7 weeks ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 7 weeks ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Worldwide
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Operations
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Remote flexibility
Work from anywhere
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- Source listing states candidate location: "Home based - Worldwide"
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About the role
The Canonical Security Operations team is hiring for a Senior or Staff engineer. The Security Operations team is responsible for designing, building, and operating a world-class Security Operations Center, and the successful candidate will provide leadership, mentorship, expertise, and outstanding individual contributions towards those ends.
This role involves aspects of:
Traditional SOC duties - security monitoring, threat hunting, and response.
Security engineering - assessing and protecting Canonical platforms and products.
Software engineering - building custom tools and platforms.
Site reliability engineering - deploying, maintaining, and automating security tools.
We are looking for individuals with engineering and security experience, as well as a history of remarkable achievement. Senior security operations personnel with engineering experience and senior developers with security experience are equally well-suited to this role.
Beyond securing Canonical’s digital estate, this position represents a unique opportunity to contribute to the open source ecosystem. Team members may present at industry conferences, share threat intelligence with the wider community, or publish open source security software.
Junior positions are also available for less-experienced individuals with a compelling academic or professional background.
In this role, you will:
Provide operational and engineering leadership.
Implement and evolve Canonical’s Security Operations Center.
Design and develop security software and platforms.
Monitor for, identify, respond to, and remediate security incidents.
Assess and improve Canonical’s security controls.
Mentor early-career Security Operations engineers.
Plan and deliver work within Canonical's agile engineering framework.
Contribute to open source security.
Publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations.
We are looking for:
An exceptional academic track record.
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path.
10+ years of relevant professional experience
Professional cybersecurity experience, preferably working or leading a Security Operations Center.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
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
- ·Recognition rewards
- ·Annual holiday leave
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from anywhere, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Canonical, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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