Job Description

Canonical is seeking a Senior or Staff Security Operations Engineer to design, build, and operate a world-class Security Operations Center. This role combines traditional SOC duties with security engineering, software engineering, and site reliability engineering, offering a unique opportunity to contribute to both Canonical’s security and the open-source ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and engineering leadership
• Implement and evolve Canonical’s Security Operations Center
• Design and develop security software and platforms
• Monitor, identify, respond to, and remediate security incidents
• Assess and improve Canonical’s security controls
• Mentor early-career Security Operations engineers
• Plan and deliver work within an agile engineering framework
• Contribute to open source security
• Publish blog posts, whitepapers, and conference presentations

Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience
• Professional cybersecurity experience, preferably leading a SOC
• Professional engineering experience
• Eagerness to contribute to open source security
• Proficiency in Python and Bash
• Knowledge of Git, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Kubernetes

Benefits

• No benefits