Chief Cybersecurity Strategist

Secure Your Future with a Leadership Role in Cybersecurity

• This senior leadership position oversees the Security Operations (SecOps) team, responsible for designing and implementing Canonical's security practices, techniques, tools, systems, and policies.
• The team is the primary owner of strategy and practices that determine how data, internal infrastructure, and build processes are secured.
• The SecOps team manager will collaborate with Organisational Learning and Development to develop playbooks and facilitate training across Canonical.

• Hire and mentor technical security professionals to achieve outstanding performance.
• Define and implement Canonical's SecOps security standards and playbooks.
• Own and drive the architecture and design of the Security Operations Centre (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's SecOps practice.
• Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives.
• Drive threat modelling, table top exercises, and other SecOps practices across Engineering, Information Systems, and Canonical.
• Develop learning and development materials for Canonical's SecOps.
• Publish blog posts, whitepapers, and conference presentations.
• Track and implement SecOps Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Plan and deliver SecOps work within Canonical's agile engineering framework.

• A proven track record of mitigating advanced threats from nation-state actors.
• Expert technical understanding of Security Operations Centres from the ground up.
• In-depth knowledge of SOC architecture and design, including strategies for logging, firewalls, network segmentation, honeypots, etc.
• Experience 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.
• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about alternative paths.
• Leadership and management ability.
• Excellent business English writing and presentation skills.

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