Senior Security Operations Engineer (Remote, Open Source)

Canonical Ltd.; Dublin; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Company events travel

Job summary

Canonical Ltd. is hiring a Senior or Staff Engineer to lead and advance the Security Operations Center. You will design, build, and operate security tooling and platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to open source security efforts.

The role blends security, software and site reliability engineering, with opportunities to present at conferences and share threat intelligence with the community. Junior positions are available for strong candidates with compelling backgrounds.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in security or engineering.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or an equivalent path with demonstrated achievement.
• Experience in security operations centers or security engineering.
• Proficiency in common scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• Knowledge of Git, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and engineering leadership.
• Implement and evolve Canonical’s Security Operations Center.
• Design and develop security software and platforms.
• Monitor for, 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 Canonical's agile engineering framework.
• Contribute to open source security.
• Publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat hunting

SRE fundamentals

Python scripting

GitOps

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/STEM

Tools

Git

GitOps

IaC

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Canonical Ltd. is hiring a Senior or Staff Engineer to lead and advance the Security Operations Center. You will design, build, and operate security tooling and platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to open source security efforts.

The role blends security, software and site reliability engineering, with opportunities to present at conferences and share threat intelligence with the community. Junior positions are available for strong candidates with compelling backgrounds.