Senior Security Operations Engineer
Canonical · Home based - Worldwide · Engineering
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A remote engineering opening from Canonical with official ATS source details and a direct employer apply link.
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- Employment Length: Permanent
- Core skills: Analysers, Competitor, Contributor, Doer, Fixer, Helper, Problem Solver, Teacher, Technologist, Tester
- External Departments (website): Engineering
- One line job description: Join the operations security (OpSec) team responsible for end-to-end technical and operational security of Canonical's business, including agile threat modeling, table top exercises, intrusion detection and response, forensic analysis and policy determination.
- LinkedIn Posting Level: Mid-Senior
Official description
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.
- Professional engineering experience.
- An eagerness to contribute to open source security.
- Proficiency in common scripting languages, such as Python and Bash.
- Knowledge of Git, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and common orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
Though optional, we value:
- Familiarity with security frameworks such as the NIST CSF, CIS CSC, and ISO 27001
- Knowledge of security architecture and market-leading security tools.
- Experience in a security operations team or a security operations center.
- Experience in offensive or defensive security teams with hands-on ability.
- Experience with advanced persistent threats.
- Proficiency in additional programming languages, such as Golang.
What we offer you:
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- 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
- 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
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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- First Name (Required)
- Last Name (Required)
- Email (Required)
- Phone (Optional)
- Resume/CV (Required)
- During this application process I agree to use only my own words. I understand that plagiarism, the use of AI or other generated content will disqualify my application. (Required)
- Please describe your most intensive cyber-security operational experience, where you felt the threat actors were most sophisticated or the stakes particularly high. Please describe your role and contribution to that security work. (Required)
- Please list of SecOps tools or technologies that you are familiar with, along with any comments to indicate the tools in which you have very significant experience or interest. (Required)
- Do you have experience against nation state level adversaries? (Required)
- How did you perform in mathematics at high school? (Required)
- How did you perform in your native language at high school? (Required)
- Please share your rationale or evidence for the high school performance selections above. Make reference to provincial, state or nation-wide scoring systems, rankings, or recognition awards, or to competitive or selective college entrance results such as SAT or ACT scores, JAMB, matriculation results, IB results etc. We recognise every system is different but we will ask you to justify your selections above. (Required)
- What was your bachelor's university degree result, or expected result if you have not yet graduated? Please include the grading system to help us understand your result e.g. ‘85 out of 100’, ‘2:1 (Grading system: first class, 2:1, 2:2, third class)’ or ‘GPA score of 3.8/4.0 (predicted)’. We have hired outstanding individuals who did not attend or complete university. If this describes you, please continue with your application and enter ‘no degree’. (Required)
- We require all colleagues to meet in person 2-4 times a year, at internal company events lasting between 1-2 weeks. We try to pick new and interesting locations that will likely require international travel and entry requirement visas and vaccinations. Are you willing and able to commit to this? (Required)
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- In which country do you currently work? (Required)
- In the past ten years, looking only at the time since you graduated your first undergraduate degree, how many companies have you worked for? (Required)
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