Senior Security Operations Engineer
Canonical · Engineering · Senior · 20d ago
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“We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company.”
Global distributed remote-first team.
- Async-first
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- Includes twice-yearly in-person team sprints.
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About the role
As a Senior Security Operations Engineer at Canonical, you will provide operational leadership and technical expertise across SOC operations, security engineering, software development, and site reliability engineering. You will help build and evolve Canonical's Security Operations Center, monitor and respond to security incidents, develop custom automation tooling, and mentor early-career engineers. Additionally, the role offers high visibility to contribute to the open-source ecosystem through security software, community threat intelligence, and conference presentations.
What you'll do
- Implement and evolve Canonical's Security Operations Center and its underlying security controls.
- Monitor for, identify, respond to, and remediate security incidents and conduct threat hunting.
- Design and develop security software, tools, and platforms using agile engineering practices.
- Deploy, maintain, and automate security infrastructure using GitOps and orchestration platforms.
- Provide technical leadership and mentor early-career Security Operations engineers.
- Contribute to open source security projects and publish blog posts, whitepapers, or conference presentations.
What you bring
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling alternative track record.
- 10+ years of relevant professional engineering and cybersecurity experience.
- Professional experience operating or leading within a Security Operations Center.
- Proficiency in common scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
- Hands-on knowledge of Git, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
- Demonstrated eagerness and ability to contribute to open-source security software.
About Canonical
Canonical is the pioneering tech firm behind Ubuntu, one of the world's most critical open-source platforms for cloud, AI, and IoT infrastructure. Operating as a remote-first organization since 2004, Canonical employs a distributed global workforce.
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