Senior Security Ops Engineer Lead SOC & Open Source

Canonical Ltd.; Województwo mazowieckie; Remote; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-person team sprints

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel opportunities and upgrades

Diversity & equal opportunity

Job summary

Canonical Ltd. is seeking a Senior or Staff engineer for its Security Operations team. This role leads and mentors, designs, builds, and operates a world-class SOC, while contributing to open source security and industry publications.

The role blends security engineering with software development, threat hunting, and incident response, offering opportunities to present at conferences and share threat intelligence with the community.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about an alternative path.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Professional cybersecurity experience, preferably leading a Security Operations Center.
• Professional engineering experience.
• An eagerness to contribute to open source security.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash.
• Knowledge of Git, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and orchestration platforms such as 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 engineering

Threat detection

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Git / GitOps

Kubernetes

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or STEM

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform, etc.)

Job description

Canonical Ltd. is seeking a Senior or Staff engineer for its Security Operations team. This role leads and mentors, designs, builds, and operates a world-class SOC, while contributing to open source security and industry publications.

The role blends security engineering with software development, threat hunting, and incident response, offering opportunities to present at conferences and share threat intelligence with the community.