Job Title:
Chief Cybersecurity Strategist
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Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Chief Cybersecurity Strategist to lead our cybersecurity operations. This is a challenging role that requires expertise in security practices, techniques, tools, systems, and policies. As the leader of our Security Operations team, you will be responsible for ensuring the security and integrity of our infrastructure and product deployments.
The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise with a range of open source and proprietary security tooling and practices. They will integrate these into a holistic next-generation security solution across Canonical's interests. A strong track record of mitigating threats from advanced actors and nation-state threats is essential.
This is not only a technical position but also a leadership role. We expect our leaders to be expert practitioners who can contribute at the highest level and assess work based on their professional experience and skill.
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Required Skills and Qualifications
* Hire and mentor a team of outstanding technical security professionals
* Define and implement security standards and playbooks
* Own and drive the architecture and design of the SOC
* Analyse and improve security architecture
* Evaluate, select, and implement new security tools and practices
* Identify, contain, and guide remediation of security threats and cyber attacks
* Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical SecOps practice
* Contribute to open-source threat intelligence initiatives
* Drive threat modeling, tabletop exercises, and other SecOps practices across Engineering, IS, and Canonical
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Benefits
* Able 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
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Others
This role reports directly to the CISO. An exceptional academic track record, undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, and deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security are highly desirable.
This is an exciting opportunity for a senior leader who wants to make a significant impact on Canonical's security posture.