Canonical
Senior Security Operations Engineer
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Home based - Worldwide
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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.