Security Risk Management Specialist

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
3 years

Job description

A security risk management role at Canonical, owning and executing a strategic vision for the security risk program, defining standards and playbooks, and leading quantified risk assessments across the organisation.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Languages
English – fluent

What you'll do

  • Define Canonical's security risk management standards and playbooks
  • 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
  • Work with Security leadership to present information and influence change
  • Participate in developing key risk indicators, 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)
  • Participate in risk management, decision-making, and collaborative discussions
  • 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
  • Build evaluation methods and performance indicators to measure efficiency of security functions and capabilities

What we're looking for

  • 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

Your team

Security Risk Management

The team is the primary owner of the strategy and practices of how Canonical identifies, tracks and reduces security risk across everything it does; it also collaborates with Organisational Learning and Development to develop playbooks and facilitate security training.

Benefits

  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 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
  • Performance-driven annual bonus

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About Canonical

A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source

Canonical is the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004 and recruits on a global basis.

Mission

To be at the forefront of the global move to open source and to contribute to the security of the wider open source ecosystem

Key facts

  • 2004
  • Open source software
  • Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
  • Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
  • Recruits on a global basis

What they value

  • Excellence
  • Think differently
  • Work smarter
  • Learn new skills
  • Raise your game