08 oct
Canonical
Caracas
Job Title: Head of Cyber Security Operations
This is a senior leadership role in Canonical's Cyber Security team, responsible for managing the Security Operations (SecOps) team. The team is responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving Canonical's security practices, techniques, tools, systems, and policies.
The SecOps team is the primary owner of strategy and practices that determine how Canonical secures its data, internal infrastructure, and build processes. They are responsible for assuring the security and integrity of Canonical's infrastructure and product deployments.
The team designs and implements technical security controls to ensure security threats are automatically identified, contained, and remediated.
They also contribute ideas and requirements for Canonical product security, improving the resilience and robustness of all Ubuntu customers and users subject to cyber attack.
As a leader in cyber security, the SecOps team manager will collaborate with Canonical's Organisational Learning and Development team to develop playbooks and facilitate SecOps training across the company.
The team operates in a wider security organisation, runs a high-performing security team, and improves Canonical's security posture. They lead initiatives to integrate the team's insights into Canonical's broader software development process.
This is a management position, but we expect managers to be expert practitioners, able to lead by example, contribute at the highest level, and assess work based on their own professional experience and skill.
Candidates should have deep, hands-on expertise with a range of open source and proprietary security tooling and practices,
which they can integrate into a holistic next-generation security solution across the breadth of Canonical's interests.
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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
Optional Requirements:
- 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 endpoints
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