Career Opportunities at Canonical

Key responsibilities

• Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Guide the security posture for Ubuntu, and other Canonical products
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Manage competing priorities, communicating with internal and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
• Guide the growth of the Canonical Security story
• Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events

Valued skills and experience

• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software security, either Security Certifications or Application Security 
• You have some experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

What Canonical offers:

• Personal learning and development budget 
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel
   

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What you’ll do

• Support the Security Certifications engineers to achieve and retain various Security certifications
• Extend and enhance Linux cryptographic components - specifically with modules such as OpenSSL/Libgcrypt - with the features and functionality required for FIPS and CC certification
• Collaborate with external security consultants to test and validate kernel and crypto components, achieve and retain FIPS and CC certification
• Work with external partners to develop CIS benchmarks and hardening automation for Ubuntu
• Contribute to Ubuntu mainline and upstream projects to land solutions and benefit the community
• Communication and collaboration within and outside Canonical to rapidly resolve issues and keep the project on track
• Required Skills and Experience
• Significant experience working with open source libraries
• Development experience of Linux Security and Cryptography
• Hands on experience working with public key cryptography
• Experience with patching and associated tooling: identifying, isolating, applying and testing patches, and resolving any resulting issues
• General Linux development skills (C proficiency, git experience)

Who you are

• Knowledge of and familiarity with low-level Linux cryptography APIs and debugging
• Experience working with Linux Kernel
• Knowledge of security benchmarks such as STIG and CIS benchmarks. 
• Security Certification experience and knowledge in FIPS and/or CC
• Experience with OVAL (Open Vulnerability Assessment Language) and Go