Linux Cryptography and Information Security Engineer

19 hours ago

Muscat, Muscat, Oman beBee Careers Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your software engineering and cryptography expertise to develop and maintain the security foundation that enables secure operation and compliance with international information security standards such as FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria.

  • You will utilize your applied cryptography, Linux Security, and coding skills to enhance the Ubuntu distribution and collaborate with organizations like DISA and CIS to draft and implement security hardening benchmarks for Ubuntu.
  • As a member of the Security Hardening team, you will work on developing automation tooling to audit deployed systems for DISA-STIG and CIS benchmark compliance, interact with stakeholders to identify gaps in our frameworks, and develop new solutions to address these challenges.
  • You will have the opportunity to influence team and security culture, facilitate technical delivery, and drive team direction and execution. You'll collaborate closely with Canonical's kernel team as well as the wider engineering organization to drive features impacting all Ubuntu users.
Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with other engineers in the Security Hardening team to achieve and retain various Security certifications.
  • Enhance and extend Linux cryptographic components (OpenSSL, Libgcrypt, GnuTLS, and others) with the features and functionality required for FIPS and CC certification.
  • Collaborate with external security consultants to test and validate kernel and crypto module components.
  • Work with external partners to develop security hardening benchmarks and audit + remediation automation for Ubuntu.
  • Contribute to Ubuntu mainline and upstream projects to land solutions and benefit the community.
  • Communicate and collaborate within and outside the organization to identify opportunities to improve our security posture, rapidly resolve issues, and deliver high-quality solutions on schedule.
Requirements:
  • Hands-on experience with low-level Linux cryptography APIs and debugging.
  • Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including prior experience with C development, and the ability to demonstrate such.
  • Hands-on experience with Linux system administration and shell scripting.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of security and cryptography fundamentals + direct experience writing secure code and implementing best practices.
  • Significant development experience working with open source libraries.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications to enable efficient collaboration with internal and external partners in a remote-first environment.
Additional Skills:
  • Prior experience working on FIPS/Common Criteria certified products and in-depth knowledge of the underlying standards.
  • Prior experience working directly with DISA-STIG or CIS benchmarks, including related audit + remediation tooling (e.g. Compliance as Code).
  • Experience working directly with Linux Kernel.
  • Prior experience with Python, OVAL (Open Vulnerability Assessment Language), and Ansible.
  • History of contributions to open source projects.
What We Offer:
  • A distributed work environment with regular in-person team sprints.
  • A personal learning and development budget.
  • An annual compensation review.
  • Recognition rewards.
  • Annual holiday leave.
  • Maternity and paternity leave.
  • An Employee Assistance Programme.
  • The opportunity to travel to meet colleagues from your team and others.
  • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

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