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The role
Canonical is hiring a Head of Security Operations to lead the team that designs and runs the company's security practices, tools and policies. The role reports to the CISO. It is a remote global leadership position.
What you will do
- Hire and mentor a team of technical security professionals
- Define SecOps standards and playbooks and own the design of the SOC
- Identify, contain and guide remediation of cyber attacks
- Evaluate and implement new security tools and practices
- Drive threat modelling and table-top exercises across engineering and IS
- Track SecOps KPIs and report security metrics
What they ask for
- Proven record of dealing with advanced threat actors and nation-state threats
- Expert knowledge of SOC architecture and design, including logging, firewalls and segmentation
- Expertise in Linux security
- Ability to define, automate and measure incident response playbooks
- Experience with threat intelligence feeds and risk frameworks such as NIST CSF
- Leadership and management ability
- Excellent business English writing and presentation skills
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Canonical's careers page behind the apply button.
