Jobs at Canonical

The SecOps team's mission is not only to secure Canonical, but also to contribute to the security of the wider open source ecosystem. They might share knowledge through public presentations and industry events, and share threat intelligence with the wider community or represent Canonical in sector-specific governance bodies.

This role reports to the CISO.

What you will do in this role:

• Hire and mentor a team of outstanding technical security professionals
• Define Canonical's SecOps security standards and playbooks
• Own and drive the architecture and design of the SOC
• Analyse and improve Canonical's security architecture
• Evaluate, select and implement new security tools and practices
• Identify, contain and guide the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks
• Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical SecOps practice
• Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives
• Drive threat modelling, table top exercises and other SecOps practices across Engineering, IS and Canonical
• Develop Canonical SecOps learning and development materials
• Publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations
• Identify, implement and track SecOps KPIs
• Plan and deliver SecOps work in the framework of Canonical's agile engineering practice
• Work with Security leadership to present information and influence change

What we are looking for

• Proven track record of mitigating with advanced threat actors and nation state threats
• Expert technical understanding of 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

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Responsibilities

• Support operations for one or more departments in the company
• Coordinate monthly reports and schedule meetings and interviews
• Organise and run international company events including logistics
• Manage quarterly and annual executive meetings
• Collaborate across teams on activities and initiatives
• Manage suppliers and stakeholders

What we are looking for in you

• Excellent academic results at school and university
• A degree in a business or technical subject
• Excellent communication skills
• Responsibility, integrity and accountability
• Self-awareness and thoughtfulness
• Ability to travel up to four times a year for company events of up to two weeks duration
• Ability to learn new technology and software quickly

Additional Skills We Value

• Experience in operations and executive support
• Project management experience
• Event related experience
• Travel industry experience

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The successful Project Manager will have solid IT project management experience in a software engineering and/or information technology field, excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and experience leading cross-cultural, remote and global project teams and customers. You will be able to "make things happen" with a professional approach and effective negotiation techniques. You have Agile expertise and Project Management certification.

If this sounds like you and you have experience in the areas below, we'd love to hear from you:

• Enterprise IT Programs
• Process Improvement
• Software Engineering Project Management

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Leading diverse, remote project teams
• Experience with cross-cultural and multi-continent projects
• Hiring, managing teams and helping to develop team skills
• SW engineering and IT project management
• Driving project success while managing risks
• Experience in building collaborative internal and external partnerships
• Solid commercial skills; experience in dealing with contracts
• Effective negotiator, comfortable in a customer facing roles for complex projects
• Degree level education in Computer Science or STEM field, ideally also an MBA or similar qualification
• Able to travel 6-8 weeks a year, up to two weeks at a time, sometimes internationally
• Flexibility to work non-standard hours when required, in support of a worldwide sales and project team