Company Info
Large organization
Canonical - We bring open source to the globe more quickly, securely, and affordably than any other organisation. We work with a committed worldwide community of 200,000 contributors to create Ubuntu, the world's most popular corporate Linux, from the cloud to the edge. Ubuntu translates as "humanity to others."
200 + Employees
Canonical – We bring open source to the globe more quickly, securely, and affordably than any other organisation. We work with a committed worldwide community of 200,000 contributors to create Ubuntu, the world’s most popular corporate Linux, from the cloud to the edge. Ubuntu translates as “humanity to others.” We selected it because it personifies the generosity at the core of open source, which has become the new normal for platforms and innovation. We publish an operating system that runs from tiny connected devices to the world’s largest mainframes, the platform that everyone uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers in collaboration with a community of 200,000. Ubuntu is the future of open source. It is secure and trustworthy, sleek and simple, and open to new ideas.
1). Ubuntu Engineering Manager – Security
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- This is an opportunity to play a crucial role in shaping the security of Canonical and the whole open source community. We are looking for people to help us grow and expand our security offering, and to help us make the world a safer place.
- You will work alongside fantastic security professionals already onboard at Canonical, and share your time between contributing technically, and managing team members and projects.
- The security team aims to provide a secure, stable service to our users and customers, and to enable them to reduce and manage their risk in an ever-changing landscape. This role involves engaging directly with our community and customers, as well as coordinating efforts across multiple engineering teams and projects.
- As an Engineering Manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical.
- As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software security is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members.
- You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
- We have multiple management focus areas open for the Ubuntu security management role:
- Security Maintenance (CVE and vulnerability addressing life cycle)
- Security Technology (AppArmor, Secureboot, and Cryptography)
- Certifications and Compliance (FIPS, CIS, FedRAMP)
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 have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar Degree
- 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.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Ubuntu Security Technology Manager
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical.
- As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software security is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members.
- You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Provide technical thought leadership for your team and others around Canonical
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
What we are looking for
- Exceptional software engineering skills – design, document, plan, execute
- Demonstrated experience in managing or leading software engineering teams
- Demonstrated understanding in one or more of the following areas:
- Secureboot or other UEFI capabilities
- Code integrity primitives such as dm-verity
- AppArmor, SELinux or other MAC modules
- Confidential computing TEEs (Intel SGX, AMD SEV, arm TrustZone or similar)
- WIllingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Security Software Engineer
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- This is a general track for security-focused engineering in every team at Canonical, across all levels of seniority. Apply here if you are already an exceptional security-focused software engineer.
- Most product engineering teams at Canonical include one or two spaces for dedicated security-oriented software engineers. Their role is to challenge the entire team to think more deeply about security. They contribute to the product as engineers too, but their primary focus is to improve security through state of the art practices – from table-top threat model exercises to architecture reviews, from extended security testing with fuzzers and static analysis tools to external security analyst liaison.
- We also build a number of products that are entirely motivated by security technology and requirements, such as our AppArmor kernel investments and our hardening, compliance and certification toolkits for Ubuntu.
- As the publisher of Ubuntu we also handle long-term security response and hardening for the entire operating system and open source universe. Working with tens of thousands of upstreams means that we need to be fluent in every major programming language, and design, build and adopt sophisticated tools that enable us to work at scale and speed with confidence.
- These roles encompass all aspects of product security, including feature development, vulnerability response, proactive security and open source community participation. All security roles interact closely with many of the other Canonical engineering and development teams, Canonical customers and our partners across the open source community.
What you’ll do
Security roles might tackle any of the following:
- Define, implement and document new security features
- Lead security-oriented thinking in a product engineering team
- Analyze, fix, and test vulnerabilities in Canonical and open source Software
- Contribute to Ubuntu and upstream projects to benefit the community
- Audit and analyze source code for vulnerabilities
- Integrate new tools in our security infrastructure, pipelines and processes
- 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 country-specific compliance such as FIPS and CC certification
- Work with external partners to develop CIS benchmarks
- Design and develop hardening automation for Ubuntu
- Monitor the security industry for new developments
- Develop, test and maintain new software capabilities
- Provide guidance and support to other engineering teams
What we are looking for in you
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- 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
- A thorough understanding of the common categories of security vulnerabilities
- Modern engineering techniques to find and fix them
- Familiarity with open source development tools and methodologies
- Skill in one or more of C, Python, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby or PHP
- Experience as a security champion
- Experience driving security within a wider SDLC process
- Professional written and spoken English
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Optional skills we also value
- Clear and effective communication with the team and Ubuntu community members
- Experience working with Linux Kernel
- Security Certification experience and knowledge in FIPS and/or CC
- Experience with OVAL (Open Vulnerability Assessment Language)
- Knowledge of and familiarity with low-level Linux cryptography APIs
- Demonstrated high learning ability
- Performance engineering experience.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: