Head of Security Operations

The role

This global leadership role manages the Security Operations team responsible for designing and implementing Canonical security practices, tools, and policies. The manager will secure internal infrastructure, product deployments, and contribute to the security of the open source ecosystem.

What you will do

• Hire and mentor a team of technical security professionals
• Define SecOps security standards and playbooks
• Own and drive the architecture and design of the SOC
• Analyse and improve security architecture
• Evaluate, select and implement new security tools and practices
• Identify, contain and guide the remediation of security threats
• Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical SecOps practice
• Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives
• Drive threat modelling and table top exercises
• Develop SecOps learning and development materials

Required qualifications

• 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
• 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

Nice to have

• Experience in offensive or defensive security teams with hands-on ability
• Experience with open source security tools
• Experience with security standards such as ISO 27001
• Experience with security posture management of corporate endpoitns

About the company

Canonical is a company focused on securing its data, internal infrastructure, build processes, and product deployments while contributing to the open source ecosystem.