Security Strategist

This role involves leading the strategy and practices for identifying, tracking, and reducing security risks across all company activities. Industry best practices combined with emerging threat information are used to promote risk identification, quantification, impact analysis, and modelling to drive decision-making.

• Establish and execute a broad strategic vision for the security risk program.
• Work cross-functionally with various teams to contribute ideas and requirements for Canonical product security.
• Analyse and improve Canonical's security risk practices.
• Evaluate, select and implement new security requirements, tools and practices.
• Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical security risk management practice.
• Develop Canonical security risk learning and development materials.
• Present information and influence change.
• Participate in developing key risk indicators and provide inputs to the development of key control indicators and key performance indicators for various programs.
• Apply statistical models to risk frameworks such as FAIR, sensitivity analysis and others.
• Lead quantified risk assessments and understand the value of qualitative data for improvements to quality and engineering processes.
• Interpret internal or external cyber security risk analyses in business terms and recommend a responsible course of action.
• Develop templates and materials to help with self-service risk management actions.
• Monitor and identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness of risk management processes.
• Launch campaigns to perform security assessments and help mitigate security risks across the company.

• An exceptional academic track record.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative path.
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
• Deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security.
• Leadership and management ability.
• Excellent business English writing and presentation skills.
• Problem-solver with excellent communication skills a deep technical understanding of security assessments and risk management.
• Expertise in threat modelling and risk management frameworks.
• Broad knowledge of how to operationalize the management of security risk.
• Experience in Secure Development Lifecycle and Security by Design methodology.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

We are a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. We publish Ubuntu one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI IoT and the cloud. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence in order to succeed we need to be the best at what we do.

We have been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently work smarter learn new skills and raise your game.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience perspectives and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.