Head of Security Operations

This global leadership role in cyber security is to manage the Security Operations (SecOps) team responsible for design, implementation and evolution of Canonical security practices, techniques, tools, systems and policies. The team is the primary owner of strategy and practices that determine how Canonical secures ...

As a leader on cyber security in the company, the SecOps team manager will collaborate with our Organisational Learning and Development team to develop playbooks and facilitate SecOps training across Canonical. They will operate in a wider security organisation, run a high performing security team and improve Canoni...

While this is a management position, 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 tool...

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

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
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