As a Threat Intelligence Lead, you will be responsible for developing and executing Canonical's threat intelligence strategy. This includes understanding the cyber threat landscape, identifying potential threats, and developing mitigation strategies to protect our products and infrastructure.
The successful candidate will have a strong background in threat intelligence, with experience in gathering and analyzing data to inform enterprise architecture and product development decisions.
* Key responsibilities include:
* Developing and maintaining OSINT research environments
* Identifying and tracking targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
* Collaborating across teams to inform on activity of interest
* Conducting briefings for executives, internal stakeholders, and external customers
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Experience as a threat intelligence leader or similar role
* Knowledge of current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
* Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
* Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
* Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
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
About Us:
We are a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. We publish 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 high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.