Senior Security Operations Engineer
At Canonical
Posted 27 Oct 2026 · Application link last checked 27 Oct 2026
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Role Overview
The Canonical Security Operations team is hiring for a Senior or Staff engineer. The Security Operations team is responsible for designing, building, and operating a world-class Security Operations Center, and the successful candidate will provide leadership, mentorship, expertise, and outstanding individual contributions towards those ends.
This role involves aspects of:
- Traditional SOC duties - security monitoring, threat hunting, and response.
- Security engineering - assessing and protecting Canonical platforms and products.
- Software engineering - building custom tools and platforms.
- Site reliability engineering - deploying, maintaining, and automating security tools.
We are looking for individuals with engineering and security experience, as well as a history of remarkable achievement. Senior security operations personnel with engineering experience and senior developers with security experience are equally well-suited to this role.
Beyond securing Canonical’s digital estate, this position represents a unique opportunity to contribute to the open source ecosystem. Team members may present at industry conferences, share threat intelligence with the wider community, or publish open source security software.
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